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title: And not all adverbs end in -ly: soon, very, often and fast can be ad… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics
description: And not all adverbs end in -ly: soon, very, often and fast can be adverbs too. Who acts: adverbs. A sentence of the lesson «Word classes: the jobs words do» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 10

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And not all adverbs end in -ly: soon, very, often and fast can be adverbs too.

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**Who acts:** adverbs · **What happens:** not end · **To what, where:** ly

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Word classes: the jobs words do» of the english 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 (adverbs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.lesson:10
# text = And not all adverbs end in -ly: soon, very, often and fast can be adverbs too.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.lesson
# annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	not	not	ADV	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
4	adverbs	adverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:compound
5	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	ly	ly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	adverbs	adverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **end** | present | all adverbs |  |  | ly |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:027-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do.lesson:10`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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