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title: Many adverbs end in -ly, but friendly, lovely and silly are adjectiv… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics
description: Many adverbs end in -ly, but friendly, lovely and silly are adjectives, and soon, often and very are adverbs without -ly. Who acts: Many adverbs, friendly. 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 pragm
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# Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 24

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Many adverbs end in -ly, but friendly, lovely and silly are adjectives, and soon, often and very are adverbs without -ly.

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**Who acts:** Many adverbs, friendly · **What happens:** end, be · **To what, where:** ly, adjectives, adverbs

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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 (Many adverbs, friendly), 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:24
# text = Many adverbs end in -ly, but friendly, lovely and silly are adjectives, and soon, often and very are adverbs without -ly.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	adverbs	adverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	ly	ly	NOUN	NN	_	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	often	often	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	adverbs	adverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	ly	ly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6: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 | **end** | present | Many adverbs |  |  | ly |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | friendly | adjectives and adverbs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | friendly *not said here* | adverbs |  |  |  | without ly; often, soon *property* | tree rules |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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