--- title: My, your, his, her, our and their before a noun are called possessiv… — Word classes: the jobs words do · tree and pragmatics description: My, your, his, her, our and their before a noun are called possessive determiners in school grammar. 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/27/) [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/) / 27 # Word classes: the jobs words do, sentence 27 My, your, his, her, our and their before a noun are called possessive determiners in school grammar. **What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Arvo · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: 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:27 # text = My, your, his, her, our and their before a noun are called possessive determiners in school grammar. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 conj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 9 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 conj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 conj _ _ 12 before before ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 possessive possessive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 determiners determiner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 xcomp _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · passive | | Arvo | | | before a noun | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:27`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Word classes: the jobs words do, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/26/) - next →: [Word classes: the jobs words do, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/27-word-classes-the-jobs-words-do/)