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title: A word's class (noun, verb, adjective and so on) depends on the job… — Nouns: the names of things, people, places and i… · tree and pragmatics
description: A word's class (noun, verb, adjective and so on) depends on the job it does in the sentence. Who acts: noun. A sentence of the lesson «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas, sentence 13

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A word's class (noun, verb, adjective and so on) depends on the job it does in the sentence.

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**Who acts:** noun · **What happens:** depend, do · **To what, where:** job, sentence

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nouns: the names of things, people, places and ideas» 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 (noun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:13
# text = A word's class (noun, verb, adjective and so on) depends on the job it does in the sentence.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	root	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	adjective	adjective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	depends	depend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **depend** | present |  |  |  |  |  | on the job | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on job=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | noun | the job *not said here* |  | the sentence |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |

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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:language:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:13`.

**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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