Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 13
Good, better, best and bad, worse, worst are irregular comparisons.
Who acts: Good · What happens: be · To what, where: irregular comparisons
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), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 comparisons | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Good | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 best | punct |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Good | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bad | cc |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Good | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 worse | punct |
| 9 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Good | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 worst | punct |
| 11 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Good | conj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 comparisons | cop |
| 13 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 comparisons | amod |
| 14 | comparisons | comparison | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 best | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Good | irregular comparisons | 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:13.
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): no change. 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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