Grammar puzzles, part two, sentence 3

One word can do several jobs: "fast" can be a describing word, a how-word, a doing-word or a naming-word, and only the sentence tells you which.

Who acts: One word, fast, sentence · What happens: do, describe, be, tell · To what, where: several jobs, describing word, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part two» 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 (One word, fast, sentence), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 word	nummod
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jobs	amod
6	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 do	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 fast	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fast	punct
9	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 word	nsubj
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 fast	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 word	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 word	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 word	det
14	describing	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 word	amod
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 do	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 word	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 word	det
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 word	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 how	punct
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 word	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 word	det
23	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 word	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 doing	punct
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 word	appos
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 word	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 word	det
28	naming	naming	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 word	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 naming	punct
30	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 word	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tells	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 tells	cc
33	only	only	ADV	_	36 tells	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 sentence	det
35	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 tells	nsubj
36	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	advcl
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 tells	iobj
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 tells	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	can	One word	several jobs		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	describe	gerund				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is a	can	fast	a describing word and a how word		tree rules
4	do	gerund				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	present	the sentence		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Topic

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:036-grammar-puzzles-part-two.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): R7-rel-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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