Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 4
English keeps making new verbs from nouns (to hoover, to google) and gives old verbs new slang meanings, like "she ate that" for "she did it brilliantly"; local verbs live on too, like Geordie "gan" for go.
Who acts: English, local verbs · What happens: keep, make, hoover, give, eat, do · To what, where: new verbs, nouns, google, new slang meanings, old verbs, that
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 (English, local verbs), 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 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 verbs | amod |
| 5 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 making | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 nouns | case |
| 7 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 making | obl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 10 hoover | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hoover | case |
| 10 | hoover | hoover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 nouns | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 google | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 google | case |
| 13 | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hoover | obj | ||
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 hoover | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gives | cc |
| 16 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 keeps | conj |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 verbs | amod |
| 18 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gives | iobj |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 meanings | amod |
| 20 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meanings | compound |
| 21 | meanings | meaning | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gives | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ate | punct |
| 23 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 26 ate | mark |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ate | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ate | nsubj |
| 26 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 verbs | conj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 ate | obj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 ate | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 did | mark |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 did | punct |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 did | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ate | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 did | obj |
| 34 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 32 did | advmod |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 did | punct |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 live | punct |
| 37 | local | local | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 verbs | amod |
| 38 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 live | nsubj |
| 39 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 verbs | acl:relcl |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 too | case |
| 41 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 live | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Geordie | punct |
| 43 | like | like | ADP | _ | 44 Geordie | case |
| 44 | Geordie | geordie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 verbs | conj |
| 45 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 gan | punct |
| 46 | gan | gan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 Geordie | amod |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 46 gan | punct |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 go | case |
| 49 | go | go | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gives | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | English | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | gerund | English not said here | new verbs | nouns | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset verb=Product from noun=Material | |||
| 3 | hoover | infinitive | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent google=Initial_Location | ||||||
| 4 | give | present | English not said here | new slang meanings | old verbs and Geordie | for go | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent verb=Recipient meaning=Theme for go=Asset | ||
| 5 | eat in a quote | past | English | that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | past | English | doer | brilliantly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | live | present | local verbs | old verbs and Geordie not said here | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme verb=Location |
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:4.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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