The big language quiz, sentence 7
Some verbs have irregular past tenses: bring becomes brought, catch becomes caught, and swim becomes swam.
Who acts: verbs · What happens: have, bring, catch, swim, become · To what, where: irregular past tenses, catch, swam
This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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 (verbs), 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 | 2 verbs | det |
| 2 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | irregular | irregular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tenses | amod |
| 5 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tenses | amod |
| 6 | tenses | tense | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tenses | conj |
| 9 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux:pass |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bring | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
| 12 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 caught | aux:pass |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tenses | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swim | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swim | cc |
| 17 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 18 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 swim | ccomp |
| 19 | swam | swam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 becomes | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | some verbs | irregular past tenses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tense=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | some verbs not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring | present · passive | some verbs not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together» | |||||
| 4 | catch | present · passive | catch | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | swim | present | some verbs not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | become | present | some verbs not said here | swam | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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:040-the-big-language-quiz.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. 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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