Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 1
Piling up describing words doesn't make writing stronger: "the big, enormous, gigantic dog" says "big" three times; two sharp adjectives that each add something new are better.
Who acts: Piling, big enormous gigantic dog, two sharp adjectives · What happens: pile up, describe, not make, say, add, be · To what, where: words, writing, big, something · 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 (Piling, big enormous gigantic dog, two sharp adjectives), 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 | Piling | pile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 make | csubj |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Piling | compound:prt |
| 3 | describing | describe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Piling | advcl |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Piling | obj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 better | parataxis |
| 8 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 better | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dog | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 dog | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 big | punct |
| 15 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 enormous | punct |
| 17 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 dog | amod |
| 18 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 says | nsubj |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 dog | punct |
| 20 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | parataxis |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 big | punct |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 says | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 big | punct |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 times | nummod |
| 25 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 says | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 better | punct |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 adjectives | nummod |
| 28 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 adjectives | amod |
| 29 | adjectives | adjective | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 better | nsubj |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 add | nsubj |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 that | det |
| 32 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 adjectives | acl |
| 33 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 add | obj |
| 34 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 something | amod |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 better | cop |
| 36 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | gerund | words | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme word=Destination | |||||
| 2 | describe | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not make | present · do-support | Piling | writing | strong property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset writing=Product | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the big enormous gigantic dog | big | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent big=Topic | |||
| 5 | add speech: assert | present | two sharp adjectives | something | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | two sharp adjectives | good property | tree rules |
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:1.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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