--- title: Conjunctions join: «I was tired but I kept going.» Proper nouns name… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics description: Conjunctions join: «I was tired but I kept going.» Proper nouns name one particular person, place or thing, so they need a capital: Ellie must write London, not london. Who acts: Conjunctions, ate, Proper nouns, nouns. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Conjunctions, ate, Proper nouns, nouns), 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:12 # text = Conjunctions join: «I was tired but I kept going.» Proper nouns name one particular person, place or thing, so they need a capital: Ellie must write London, not london. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 Conjunctions conjunction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 11 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 14 Proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 nouns noun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 name name VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 xcomp _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 capital capital NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 Ellie Ellie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 34 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 london London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | present | Conjunctions | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | ate | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | past | ate | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | ate *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **name** | present | Proper nouns | one particular person and place or thing | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 6 | **need** | present | nouns *= noun* | a capital | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot capital=Theme | | 7 | **write** | must | Ellie | London and london | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent london=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](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:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Word classes: the jobs words do, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/10/) - next →: [Word classes: the jobs words do, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/)