--- title: To find who a verb agrees with, find the real subject: in "Each of t… — Grammar puzzles, part one · tree and pragmatics description: To find who a verb agrees with, find the real subject: in "Each of the boys has a bike", the subject is "each" (one at a time), so it is "has", even though "boys" stands right next to the verb. Who acts: you, verb, Each, boys. A sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language cour --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 2 To find who a verb agrees with, find the real subject: in "Each of the boys has a bike", the subject is "each" (one at a time), so it is "has", even though "boys" stands right next to the verb. **Who acts:** you, verb, Each, boys · **What happens:** find, agree with, have, be, stand · **To what, where:** real subject, bike · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, verb, Each, boys), 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:2 # text = To find who a verb agrees with, find the real subject: in "Each of the boys has a bike", the subject is "each" (one at a time), so it is "has", even though "boys" stands right next to the verb. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 6 compound:prt _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 find find VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 14 in in SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 16 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 nsubj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bike bike NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 parataxis _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 appos _ _ 33 at at ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 45 even even ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ _ 46 though though SCONJ IN _ 50 mark _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 50 nsubj _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 51 right right ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 52 next next ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 50 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=55:case 53 to to ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=50:obl 56 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **agree with** *speech: agree* | present | a verb | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **find** | imperative | you *not said here* | the real subject | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Each | a bike | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bike=Patient | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | verb | | | | | have *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **stand** | present | boys | | | | | next *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/1/) - next →: [Grammar puzzles, part one, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/)