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title: A good test: can you put "the" or "some" in front of it, and does it… — Nouns: the names of things, people, places and i… · tree and pragmatics
description: A good test: can you put "the" or "some" in front of it, and does it name something? Who acts: you, 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 2

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A good test: can you put "the" or "some" in front of it, and does it name something?

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**Who acts:** you, noun · **What happens:** put, name · **To what, where:** the, front, something

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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 (you, 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:2
# text = A good test: can you put "the" or "some" in front of it, and does it name something?
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	obj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	conj	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	name	name	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **put** | can | you | the |  | front of front |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent the=Theme in front=Destination |
| 2 | **name** | present · do-support | noun | something |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |

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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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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