Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 3
Many adverbs end in -ly, but not all (fast, soon, often), and some -ly words are adjectives (a friendly dog, a lonely cat); check what the word describes.
Who acts: Many adverbs, ly words, word · What happens: end, be, check, describe · To what, where: ly, adjectives
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 (Many adverbs, ly words, word), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 adverbs | amod |
| 2 | adverbs | adverb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nsubj |
| 3 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ly | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 in | punct |
| 6 | ly | ly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 end | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 all | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 all | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 all | advmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 ly | conj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 fast | punct |
| 12 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 soon | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fast | punct |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 all | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 often | punct |
| 16 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 fast | conj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 often | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 adjectives | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 adjectives | cc |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 words | det |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 some | punct |
| 22 | ly | ly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 words | compound |
| 23 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 adjectives | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 adjectives | cop |
| 25 | adjectives | adjective | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | conj |
| 26 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 dog | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 dog | det |
| 28 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 dog | amod |
| 29 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 adjectives | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cat | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 cat | det |
| 32 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cat | amod |
| 33 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dog | conj |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 dog | punct |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 check | punct |
| 36 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 end | parataxis |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 describes | obj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 word | det |
| 39 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 describes | nsubj |
| 40 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 check | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | Many adverbs | ly | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | some ly words | adjectives | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | check | infinitive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | describe | present | the word | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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:3.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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