Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 8
Action verbs show actions you can see, like swim, jump and kick; mental verbs show thinking, knowing or feeling, like think, know and believe.
Who acts: Action verbs, you, mental verbs · What happens: show, see, jump, kick, know, feel · To what, where: actions, thinking
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 (Action verbs, you, mental 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 | Action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 verbs | compound |
| 2 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | nsubj |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 show | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 actions | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swim | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 swim | case |
| 10 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 jump | punct |
| 12 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 swim | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kick | cc |
| 14 | kick | kick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 jump | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 16 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 verbs | amod |
| 17 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 show | nsubj |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | parataxis |
| 19 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knowing | punct |
| 21 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 thinking | conj |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 feeling | cc |
| 23 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 knowing | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 think | punct |
| 25 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 26 think | mark |
| 26 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 think | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 believe | cc |
| 30 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 know | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Action verbs | actions | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent action=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | see | can | you | actions not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer action=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | jump | infinitive | Action verbs not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kick | infinitive | Action verbs not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | show | present | mental verbs | thinking | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thinking=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | know | gerund | mental verbs not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | feel | gerund | mental verbs not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | think speech: other | present | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | know | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 10 | believe | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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