--- title: "I can sing and I will dance" has four verbs: can and will are helpi… — Grammar puzzles, part one · tree and pragmatics description: "I can sing and I will dance" has four verbs: can and will are helping (modal) verbs, sing and dance are main verbs. Who acts: pasts, modal verbs. A sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Grammar puzzles, part one](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/) / 14 # Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 14 "I can sing and I will dance" has four verbs: can and will are helping (modal) verbs, sing and dance are main verbs. **Who acts:** pasts, modal verbs · **What happens:** sing, dance, have, help, be · **To what, where:** four verbs, main verbs This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 (pasts, modal verbs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:14 # text = "I can sing and I will dance" has four verbs: can and will are helping (modal) verbs, sing and dance are main verbs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.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 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 dance dance VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 helping help VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 modal modal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 sing sing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 dance dance NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 parataxis _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | can | the pasts *= past* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 2 | **dance** *in a quote* | future | the pasts *= past* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | | four verbs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Patient | | 4 | **help** | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | modal verbs and sing and dance | main verbs | | | | | tree rules | 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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Grammar puzzles, part one, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/13/) - next →: [Grammar puzzles, part one, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/)