Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 3
Verbs work in teams: in "I can swim", can is a helping (modal) verb and swim is the main verb; and the verb must match its doer, so it is "he goes" but "they go".
Who acts: Verbs, verb, swim, teams · What happens: work, swim, helping, be, match, go · To what, where: helping modal verb, main verb, doer · 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, verb, swim, teams), 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 | Verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 work | nsubj |
| 2 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 teams | case |
| 4 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 work | obl |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 swim | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 swim | mark |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 swim | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 swim | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 swim | aux |
| 10 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 work | conj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 swim | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 helping | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 helping | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 verb | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 verb | det |
| 16 | helping | helping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 verb | amod |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 modal | punct |
| 18 | modal | modal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 verb | amod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 modal | punct |
| 20 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swim | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 verb | cc |
| 22 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 verb | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 verb | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 verb | det |
| 25 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 verb | amod |
| 26 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 work | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 match | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 match | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 verb | det |
| 30 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 match | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 match | aux |
| 32 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 verb | conj |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 doer | nmod:poss |
| 34 | doer | doer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 match | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 is | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 is | advmod |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 is | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 goes | cop |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 goes | punct |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 goes | nsubj |
| 41 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 work | conj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 goes | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 go | cc |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 go | punct |
| 45 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 go | nsubj |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 goes | conj |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 go | punct |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Verbs | in teams | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in team=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swim in a quote | can | a verb = verb | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | helping | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | is a | present | a helping modal verb | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a | present | swim | the main verb | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | match | must | the verb | swim's doer | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doer=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | verb | go property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | go in a quote | present | teams = team | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:3.
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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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