--- title: The verb must agree with its subject: one doer usually takes "goes"… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: The verb must agree with its subject: one doer usually takes "goes" (he goes), more than one takes "go" (they go). Who acts: verb, one doer, one, subject. 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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, one doer, one, subject), 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:10 # text = The verb must agree with its subject: one doer usually takes "goes" (he goes), more than one takes "go" (they go). # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 doer doer NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 usually usually ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 14 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:ccomp 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 23 advmod _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nsubj _ _ 24 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | must | the verb | | | | | with action's subject | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with subject=Co-Agent | | 2 | **take** | present | one doer | | | | | usually *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | one doer *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** | present | verb | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **take** | present | one | go | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Theme | | 6 | **go** | present | subject | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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. 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