Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 10
In standard English good is an adjective (a good game) and well is the adverb (you played well); "played good" is common in casual speech, especially in America.
Who acts: good, you · What happens: be, play · To what, where: adjective, standard English, adverb, good, casual speech · 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 (good, you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 English | case |
| 2 | standard | standard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 English | amod |
| 3 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 adjective | obl |
| 4 | good | good | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adjective | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 adjective | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 adjective | det |
| 7 | adjective | adjective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 played | parataxis |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 game | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 game | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 game | amod |
| 11 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adjective | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 game | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 adverb | cc |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 adverb | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 adverb | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 adverb | det |
| 17 | adverb | adverb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 adjective | conj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 played | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 played | nsubj |
| 20 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 adverb | parataxis |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 played | advmod |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 played | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 played | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 played | punct |
| 25 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 played | obj |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 common | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 common | cop |
| 29 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 good | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 speech | case |
| 31 | casual | casual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 speech | amod |
| 32 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 common | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 America | punct |
| 34 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 36 America | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 America | case |
| 36 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 speech | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 adjective | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | good | a adjective and the adverb | standard English | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the adverb | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | play | past | you | well property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | play in a quote | past | good | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent good=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | is | present | casual speech | common 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:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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