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title: Irregular verbs do not add -ed: swim/swam, run/ran, go/went, catch/c… — Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e · tree and pragmatics
description: Irregular verbs do not add -ed: swim/swam, run/ran, go/went, catch/caught. Who acts: Irregular 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 25

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Irregular verbs do not add -ed: swim/swam, run/ran, go/went, catch/caught.

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**Who acts:** Irregular verbs · **What happens:** not add · **To what, where:** ed

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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 (Irregular 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:25
# text = Irregular verbs do not add -ed: 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): no change
1	Irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	swim/swam	swim/swam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	run/ran	run/ran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	go/went	go/went	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	catch/caught	catch/caught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **add** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | Irregular verbs | ed and swim/swam and run/ran and go/went and catch/caught |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ed=Patient |

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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:25`.

**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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