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title: A noun names a person, place, thing or idea: girl, Leeds, table, hap… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics
description: A noun names a person, place, thing or idea: girl, Leeds, table, happiness. Who acts: noun. 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 19

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A noun names a person, place, thing or idea: girl, Leeds, table, happiness.

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**Who acts:** noun · **What happens:** name · **To what, where:** person

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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 (noun), 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:19
# text = A noun names a person, place, thing or idea: girl, Leeds, table, happiness.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **name** | present | a noun | a person and place and thing or idea |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |

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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:19`.

**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. **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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