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title: A determiner comes before a noun to show which or how many: the, a,… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics
description: A determiner comes before a noun to show which or how many: the, a, an, this, some, two, my, your. Who acts: determiner. 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 26

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A determiner comes before a noun to show which or how many: the, a, an, this, some, two, my, your.

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**Who acts:** determiner · **What happens:** come, show · **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 (determiner), 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:26
# text = A determiner comes before a noun to show which or how many: the, a, an, this, some, two, my, your.
# 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	2	det	_	_
2	determiner	determiner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	dep	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **come** | present | a determiner |  |  | a noun |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before noun=Location |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | a determiner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |

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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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