--- title: A verb tells you what happens or what is: in "The dog barked" the ve… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: A verb tells you what happens or what is: in "The dog barked" the verb is barked, and every full English sentence has at least one verb. Who acts: verb, full English sentence. 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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 (verb, full English sentence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:0 # text = A verb tells you what happens or what is: in "The dog barked" the verb is barked, and every full English sentence has at least one verb. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 nsubj _ _ 6 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 conj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 13 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 15 barked bark VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 barked bark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 26 det _ _ 24 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 28 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 nmod _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 31 nummod _ _ 31 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a verb | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **happen** | present | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bark** *in a quote* | past | a verb *not said here* | | | | | in the dog | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bark** | present · passive | | the verb | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | every full English sentence | one verb | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Patient | 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:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:0`. **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 ×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: [Nouns: the names of things, people, pl…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/2-nouns-names-of-things-people-places-ideas/19/) - next →: [Verbs: doing words and being words, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/)