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title: A proper noun names one particular person, place or thing and starts… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics
description: A proper noun names one particular person, place or thing and starts with a capital letter: Ellie, London, Tuesday. Who acts: proper 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 cl
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# Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 20

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A proper noun names one particular person, place or thing and starts with a capital letter: Ellie, London, Tuesday.

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**Who acts:** proper noun · **What happens:** name, start · **To what, where:** one particular 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 (proper 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:20
# text = A proper noun names one particular person, place or thing and starts with a capital letter: Ellie, London, Tuesday.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	names	name	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Tuesday	Tuesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 proper noun | one particular person and place or thing |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | present | a proper noun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a capital letter | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with letter=Subeventuality |

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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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**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): no change. **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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