--- title: A verb is a doing or being word: run, eat, is, think. — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics description: A verb is a doing or being word: run, eat, is, think. Who acts: verb. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Word classes: the jobs words do](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/) / 21 # Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 21 A verb is a doing or being word: run, eat, is, think. **Who acts:** verb · **What happens:** do, be, run, eat · **To what, where:** doing word 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 (verb), 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:21 # text = A verb is a doing or being word: run, eat, is, think. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 amod _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 being be VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 8 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 10 run run VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 eat eat VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 13 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 appos _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | gerund | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **be** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | a verb | a doing word | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **run** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | | | | | | think *property* | 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:21`. **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, R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Word classes: the jobs words do, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/20/) - next →: [Word classes: the jobs words do, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/)