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title: Adjectives describe nouns and adverbs often describe verbs, but noun… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics
description: Adjectives describe nouns and adverbs often describe verbs, but nouns and verbs carry most of a picture. Who acts: Adjectives, adverbs, nouns. A sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Describing: senses, showing and precise words, sentence 16

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Adjectives describe nouns and adverbs often describe verbs, but nouns and verbs carry most of a picture.

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**Who acts:** Adjectives, adverbs, nouns · **What happens:** describe, carry · **To what, where:** nouns, verbs, most

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» 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 (Adjectives, adverbs, nouns), 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:16
# text = Adjectives describe nouns and adverbs often describe verbs, but nouns and verbs carry most of a picture.
# 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): no change
1	Adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	adverbs	adverb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present | Adjectives | nouns |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme |
| 2 | **describe** | present | adverbs | verbs |  |  |  | often *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent verb=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | present | nouns and verbs | most of a picture |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme |

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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:041-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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