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title: A pronoun stands in for a noun: he, she, it, they, we, him, her, the… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics
description: A pronoun stands in for a noun: he, she, it, they, we, him, her, them, mine, yours. Who acts: pronoun. 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 25

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A pronoun stands in for a noun: he, she, it, they, we, him, her, them, mine, yours.

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**Who acts:** pronoun · **What happens:** stand · **To what, where:** noun

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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 (pronoun), 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:25
# text = A pronoun stands in for a noun: he, she, it, they, we, him, her, them, mine, yours.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	mine	mine	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	yours	yours	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	conj	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **stand** | present | a pronoun |  |  | a noun |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in noun=Location |

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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:25`.

**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, R6-punct-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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