Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 9
Friendly, lovely, silly and lonely end in -ly but are adjectives, because they describe nouns.
Who acts: Friendly, places · What happens: end, be, describe · To what, where: ly, adjectives, nouns
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 (Friendly, 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 | Friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 end | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lovely | punct |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Friendly | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 silly | punct |
| 5 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lovely | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lonely | cc |
| 7 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lovely | conj |
| 8 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ly | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | ly | ly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 end | obl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 adjectives | cc |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 adjectives | cop |
| 14 | adjectives | adjective | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 end | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 describe | punct |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 describe | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 describe | nsubj |
| 18 | describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 adjectives | advcl |
| 19 | nouns | noun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 describe | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ly | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none, act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | Friendly | ly | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Friendly not said here | adjectives | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | describe | present | places = place | nouns | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent noun=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:9.
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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