Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 14
"Most bestest" doubles the top form; it is fine for fun, but school writing says "the best".
Who acts: bestest, form, school writing · What happens: double, be, say · To what, where: top form, best · 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 (bestest, form, school writing), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bestest | punct |
| 2 | Most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 bestest | advmod |
| 3 | bestest | best | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 doubles | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bestest | punct |
| 5 | doubles | double | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fine | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 7 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 form | amod |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doubles | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 fine | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fine | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fine | cop |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 fun | case |
| 14 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fine | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 says | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 says | cc |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 writing | compound |
| 18 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 says | nsubj |
| 19 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fine | parataxis |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 best | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 best | det |
| 22 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 says | obj |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 best | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 doubles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | double | present | bestest | the top form | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent form=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | form | for fun; fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | school writing | the best | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic |
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:14.
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 ×3, 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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