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title: An adverb describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb: she ran… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics
description: An adverb describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb: she ran quickly, very tall, super fun. Who acts: adverb, Arvo. 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 23

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An adverb describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb: she ran quickly, very tall, super fun.

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**Who acts:** adverb, Arvo · **What happens:** describe, run · **To what, where:** verb

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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 (adverb, Arvo), 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:23
# text = An adverb describes a verb, an adjective or another adverb: she ran quickly, very tall, super fun.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adverb	adverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	describes	describe	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	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	adjective	adjective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	adverb	adverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	super	super	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
21	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | a adverb | a verb and a adjective or another adverb |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent verb=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | Arvo |  |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:23`.

**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, 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/).

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