Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 6
Adjectives usually go in this order: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose, as in "a lovely little old round red French wooden toy box".
Who acts: Adjectives · What happens: go · To what, where: opinion, order
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 (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 | Adjectives | adjective | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 order | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 order | det |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 opinion | punct |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 size | punct |
| 10 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opinion | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 age | punct |
| 12 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opinion | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shape | punct |
| 14 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opinion | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 colour | punct |
| 16 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opinion | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 origin | punct |
| 18 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opinion | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 material | punct |
| 20 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opinion | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 purpose | punct |
| 22 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opinion | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 box | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 box | case |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 box | case |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 box | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 box | det |
| 28 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 box | amod |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 box | amod |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 box | amod |
| 31 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 box | amod |
| 32 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 box | amod |
| 33 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 box | amod |
| 34 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 box | amod |
| 35 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 box | compound |
| 36 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opinion | parataxis |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 box | punct |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Adjectives | opinion and size and age and shape and colour and origin and material and purpose | this order | usually property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location |
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.
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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): R7-rel-agree ×8. 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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