Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 9
Modal verbs like can, could, will, should and must help the main verb, which carries the main action.
Who acts: Modal verbs, main verb · What happens: help, carry · To what, where: main verb, main action
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 (Modal verbs, main verb), 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 | Modal | modal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 verbs | amod |
| 2 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 help | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 can | case |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 verbs | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 can | punct |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 will | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 could | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 could | punct |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 help | cc |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 help | aux |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 verb | det |
| 15 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 verb | amod |
| 16 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carries | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 carries | nsubj |
| 19 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 verb | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 action | det |
| 21 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 action | amod |
| 22 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carries | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | must | Modal verbs | the main verb | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | the main verb | the main action | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=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:9.
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, R5-strong ×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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