Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 12

The comparative compares two (bigger, more beautiful); the superlative names the top one (biggest, most beautiful); long adjectives use more and most.

Who acts: comparative, superlative, long adjectives · What happens: compare, name, use · To what, where: two, top one, more

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 (comparative, superlative, long 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 comparative	det
2	comparative	comparative	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 compares	nsubj
3	compares	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 compares	obj
5	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 bigger	punct
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 compares	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 beautiful	punct
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 beautiful	advmod
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bigger	parataxis
10	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 beautiful	punct
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 use	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 names	det
13	superlative	superlative	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 names	nsubj
14	names	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 compares	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 one	det
16	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	amod
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 names	obj
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 biggest	punct
19	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 one	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beautiful	punct
21	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	22 beautiful	advmod
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 one	parataxis
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 beautiful	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 use	punct
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 adjectives	amod
26	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 use	nsubj
27	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 compares	parataxis
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 use	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 most	cc
30	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 more	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 compares	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	compare	present	the comparative	two	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient
2	name	present	superlative	the top one	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	use	present	long adjectives	more	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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:12.

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 ×5. 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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