Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 0

A verb tells you what happens or what is: in "The dog barked" the verb is barked, and every full English sentence has at least one verb.

Who acts: verb, full English sentence · What happens: tell, happen, be, bark, have · To what, where: you, verb, one verb · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (verb, full English sentence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 verb	det
2	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tells	iobj
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happens	nsubj
6	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	ccomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 happens	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 dog	case
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 in	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 barked	obl
15	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tells	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 barked	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 verb	det
18	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 barked	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 barked	aux:pass
20	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 barked	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 has	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 has	cc
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sentence	det
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sentence	amod
25	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sentence	amod
26	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 barked	conj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 least	case
29	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 one	nmod
30	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 verb	nummod
31	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 has	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a verb		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	happen	present					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present					tree rules
4	bark in a quote	past	a verb not said here			in the dog	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bark	present · passive		the verb			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
6	have	present	every full English sentence	one verb			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:language:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:0.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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