Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 0
An adjective describes a noun (a scary dog, a red ball); an adverb tells you more about a verb: how, when, where or how often (she sang loudly, come soon).
Who acts: adjective, adverb · What happens: describe, tell, sing, come · To what, where: noun, more, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» 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 (adjective, adverb), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 adjective | det |
| 2 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | nsubj |
| 3 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noun | det |
| 5 | noun | noun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describes | obj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 dog | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 8 | scary | scary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dog | amod |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noun | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ball | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ball | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ball | amod |
| 13 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dog | appos |
| 14 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 dog | punct |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 tells | punct |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 adverb | det |
| 17 | adverb | adverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tells | nsubj |
| 18 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 describes | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 tells | iobj |
| 20 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 tells | obj |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 23 verb | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 verb | det |
| 23 | verb | verb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 more | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 how | punct |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 describes | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 come | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 how | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 come | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 come | advmod |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 come | cc |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 often | advmod |
| 32 | often | often | ADV | _ | 38 come | obl |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 35 sang | punct |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 sang | nsubj |
| 35 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 describes | parataxis |
| 36 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 35 sang | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sang | punct |
| 38 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 sang | conj |
| 39 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 come | advmod |
| 40 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 39 soon | punct |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 describes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present | a adjective | a noun | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | a adverb | more | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Topic | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | adverb | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | adverb not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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