--- title: Little words like my, your and his before a noun are determiners in… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics description: Little words like my, your and his before a noun are determiners in school grammar (possessive determiners), while mine and yours standing alone are pronouns. Who acts: Little words, mine. 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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 (Little words, mine), 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:13 # text = Little words like my, your and his before a noun are determiners in school grammar (possessive determiners), while mine and yours standing alone are pronouns. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 appos _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 conj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 9 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 determiners determiner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:obl 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 18 possessive possessive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 determiners determiner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 appos _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 while while SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 23 mine mine PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 yours yours PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 conj _ _ 26 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:acl 27 alone alone ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 pronouns pronoun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Little words | determiners and pronouns | | school grammar | before a noun | | tree rules | | 2 | **stand** | gerund | | | | | | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is a** | present | mine | pronouns | | | | | tree rules | 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:13`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/12/) - next →: [Word classes: the jobs words do, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/)