--- title: A concrete noun names something you can see or touch, like a mat; an… — Nouns: the names of things, people, places and i… · tree and pragmatics description: A concrete noun names something you can see or touch, like a mat; an abstract noun names an idea or feeling, like happiness, fear or friendship. Who acts: concrete noun, you, abstract noun. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (concrete noun, you, abstract 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:8 # text = A concrete noun names something you can see or touch, like a mat; an abstract noun names an idea or feeling, like happiness, fear or friendship. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 concrete concrete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obj _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mat mat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 abstract abstract ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:conj 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=28:conj 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | present | a concrete noun | something | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 2 | **see** | can | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **name** | present | a abstract noun | a idea or feeling | | | | like happiness and fear or friendship | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme | 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:002-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas.lesson:8`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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