--- title: Strong verbs do the work of a weak verb plus an adverb: "walked slow… — Describing: senses, showing and precise words · tree and pragmatics description: Strong verbs do the work of a weak verb plus an adverb: "walked slowly" becomes "trudged" or "crept", each with its own picture; and a fresh simile ("as quiet as a sock in a drawer") surprises, while "as quiet as a mouse" has been heard a million times. 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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 verbs, fresh simile, weak 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:4 # text = Strong verbs do the work of a weak verb plus an adverb: "walked slowly" becomes "trudged" or "crept", each with its own picture; and a fresh simile ("as quiet as a sock in a drawer") surprises, while "as quiet as a mouse" has been heard a million times. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5 1 Strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 plus plus CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 adverb adverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 18 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 trudged trudge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 xcomp _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 obl _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 simile simile NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 37 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ _ 39 as as ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 40 quiet quiet NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 sock sock NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=40:nmod 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 drawer drawer NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:nmod 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct 48 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 40 punct _ _ 49 surprises surprise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 51 while while SCONJ IN _ 61 mark _ _ 52 " " PUNCT `` _ 54 punct _ _ 53 as as ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=54:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 54 quiet quiet NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 as as ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=54:nmod 58 " " PUNCT '' _ 54 punct _ _ 59 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 60 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 61 aux:pass _ _ 61 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 62 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 64 nummod _ _ 64 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 obl:unmarked _ _ 65 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Strong verbs | the work of a weak verb plus a adverb | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | | 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | past | Strong verbs *not said here* | | | | | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **become** | present | Strong verbs *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **trudge** *in a quote* | participle | Strong verbs *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **creep** *in a quote* | past | Strong verbs *not said here* | each | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **surprise** | present | a fresh simile | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **hear** | present · perfect · passive | | quiet | | | time | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | | 8 | **work** | | a weak verb plus a adverb | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×5. **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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