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title: Many very common verbs ignore -ed altogether: swim, swam; run, ran;… — Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e · tree and pragmatics
description: Many very common verbs ignore -ed altogether: swim, swam; run, ran; go, went; catch, caught. Who acts: Many common verbs. A sentence of the lesson «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e, sentence 14

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Many very common verbs ignore -ed altogether: swim, swam; run, ran; go, went; catch, caught.

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**Who acts:** Many common verbs · **What happens:** ignore, swim, swam, run, go, catch · **To what, where:** ed, catch

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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 (Many common verbs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.lesson:14
# text = Many very common verbs ignore -ed altogether: swim, swam; run, ran; go, went; catch, caught.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ignore	ignore	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	swam	swam	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **ignore** | present | Many common verbs | ed |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ed=Theme |
| 2 | **swim** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **swam** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | past |  | catch |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **catch** | participle |  | catch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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