--- title: Not all verbs are busy: "The sky is blue" has the verb is, a being w… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: Not all verbs are busy: "The sky is blue" has the verb is, a being word; am, is, are, was and were are all forms of the verb be, the most common verb in English. Who acts: verbs, sky. 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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 (verbs, sky), 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:1 # text = Not all verbs are busy: "The sky is blue" has the verb is, a being word; am, is, are, was and were are all forms of the verb be, the most common verb in English. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 8 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:nsubj 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 cop _ _ 20 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 am am NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 26 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 33 forms form NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 40 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 41 advmod _ _ 41 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 43 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | all verbs | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the sky | | | | | blue *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | the sky *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a word and am | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | past | | all forms and the common verb in English | | | | of the verb | tree rules | 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:1`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Verbs: doing words and being words, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/0/) - next →: [Verbs: doing words and being words, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/)