--- title: A strong verb can replace a weak verb plus an adverb: "walked slowly… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics description: A strong verb can replace a weak verb plus an adverb: "walked slowly" can become "trudged", "crept" or "dawdled". Who acts: strong verb. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong verb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:10 # text = A strong verb can replace a weak verb plus an adverb: "walked slowly" can become "trudged", "crept" or "dawdled". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 replace replace VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 adverb adverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 trudged trudge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 xcomp _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 24 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 28 dawdled dawdle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 advcl _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **replace** | can | a strong verb | a weak verb plus a adverb | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme verb=Co-Theme | | 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | a strong verb *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **become** | can | a strong verb *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **trudge** *in a quote* | participle | a strong verb *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **creep** *in a quote* | past | a strong verb *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **dawdle** *in a quote* | participle | a strong verb *not said here* | | | | | | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | 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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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