Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 7

An adverb tells you more about a verb, an adjective or another adverb, answering how, when, where or how often.

Who acts: adverb · What happens: tell, answer · To what, where: more, you · 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 (adverb), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 adverb	det
2	adverb	adverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tells	iobj
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 tells	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 verb	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 verb	det
8	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 more	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 adjective	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adjective	det
11	adjective	adjective	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 verb	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 adverb	cc
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 adverb	det
14	adverb	adverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 adjective	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answering	punct
16	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tells	advcl
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 answering	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 when	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 answering	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 often	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 answering	advmod
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 often	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 often	advmod
24	often	often	ADV	_	21 where	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	a adverb	more	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	gerund	a adverb not said here						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:7.

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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