--- title: "Will" sounds sure, "might" sounds unsure; "must" is strong and boss… — Active and passive voice, modal verbs · tree and pragmatics description: "Will" sounds sure, "might" sounds unsure; "must" is strong and bossy, "could" is gentle and polite. A sentence of the lesson «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/14/) [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/) / [Active and passive voice, modal verbs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/) / 14 # Active and passive voice, modal verbs, sentence 14 "Will" sounds sure, "might" sounds unsure; "must" is strong and bossy, "could" is gentle and polite. **What happens:** sound, be This is a sentence of the lesson «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» 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:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:14 # text = "Will" sounds sure, "might" sounds unsure; "must" is strong and bossy, "could" is gentle and polite. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 unsure unsure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 14 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 bossy bossy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | future | | | | | | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **sound** | might | | | | | | unsure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** | must | | | | | | strong *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | could | | | | | | gentle *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:032-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs.lesson:14`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, 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: [Active and passive voice, modal verbs, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/13/) - next →: [Active and passive voice, modal verbs, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/)