Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 4
Some describing words are old and irregular: good, better, best and bad, worse, worst; and places invent their own, like "bostin'" (brilliant) in the Black Country or "wicked" (very) in Boston.
Who acts: describing words, places · What happens: describe, be, invent · To what, where: own
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 (describing words, places), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 words | det |
| 2 | describing | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 old | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 irregular | cc |
| 7 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 old | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 irregular | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 better | punct |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 good | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 best | punct |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 good | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 bad | cc |
| 15 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 best | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 worse | punct |
| 17 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 old | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 worst | punct |
| 19 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 old | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 invent | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 invent | cc |
| 22 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 invent | nsubj |
| 23 | invent | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | conj |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 own | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 invent | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bostin | punct |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 bostin | case |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 bostin | punct |
| 29 | bostin | bostin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 invent | obl |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 bostin | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 bostin | punct |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 brilliant | punct |
| 33 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bostin | appos |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 brilliant | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 Country | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Country | det |
| 37 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Country | compound |
| 38 | Country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bostin | nmod |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 wicked | cc |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 wicked | punct |
| 41 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bostin | conj |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 wicked | punct |
| 43 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 44 very | punct |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 wicked | advmod |
| 45 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 44 very | punct |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 Boston | case |
| 47 | Boston | Boston | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 wicked | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | gerund | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | some describing words | old property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | some describing words not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | some describing words not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | some describing words not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | invent | present | places | words's own | like bostin in the Black Country | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Result |
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:4.
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 ×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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