--- title: An adjective describes a noun ("a tall tree"); an adverb describes a… — SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper · tree and pragmatics description: An adjective describes a noun ("a tall tree"); an adverb describes a verb, telling how, when or where ("she sang loudly"). Who acts: adjective, adverb. 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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 (adjective, adverb), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:7 # text = An adjective describes a noun ("a tall tree"); an adverb describes a verb, telling how, when or where ("she sang loudly"). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 adjective adjective NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 adverb adverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 conj _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl:relcl _ _ 30 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **describe** | present | a adjective | a noun | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme | | 2 | **describe** | present | a adverb | a verb | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent verb=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a adverb *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | adverb | | | | | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | 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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:7`. **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 ×2, 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. 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