Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 1
Not all verbs are busy: "The sky is blue" has the verb is, a being word; am, is, are, was and were are all forms of the verb be, the most common verb in English.
Who acts: verbs, sky · What happens: not be, be, have · To what, where: word, forms · 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 (verbs, sky), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 busy | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 verbs | det |
| 3 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 busy | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 5 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 blue | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 blue | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sky | det |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blue | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 blue | cop |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 busy | parataxis |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 blue | punct |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 blue | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 verb | det |
| 15 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 word | cop |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 word | det |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 word | cop |
| 20 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 am | punct |
| 22 | am | am | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 word | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 busy | cop |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 forms | cop |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 forms | cc |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 forms | cop |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 forms | cop |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 forms | det |
| 33 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 busy | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 verb | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 verb | det |
| 36 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 forms | nmod |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 forms | cop |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 verb | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 verb | det |
| 40 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 41 common | advmod |
| 41 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 verb | amod |
| 42 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 forms | conj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 English | case |
| 44 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 verb | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | all verbs | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the sky | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the sky not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a word and am | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | all forms and the common verb in English | of the verb | tree rules |
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:1.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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