--- title: Verbs work in teams: in "I can swim", can is a helping (modal) verb… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: Verbs work in teams: in "I can swim", can is a helping (modal) verb and swim is the main verb; and the verb must match its doer, so it is "he goes" but "they go". Who acts: Verbs, verb, swim, teams. 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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, verb, swim, teams), 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:3 # text = Verbs work in teams: in "I can swim", can is a helping (modal) verb and swim is the main verb; and the verb must match its doer, so it is "he goes" but "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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 teams team NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 16 helping helping NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 amod _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 18 modal modal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 swim swim NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 main main ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 match match VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 doer doer NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=46:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Verbs | | | | | in teams | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in team=Theme | | 2 | **swim** *in a quote* | can | a verb *= verb* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **helping** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | | a helping modal verb | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | swim | the main verb | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **match** | must | the verb | swim's doer | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doer=Patient | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | verb | | | | | go *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **go** *in a quote* | present | teams *= team* | | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/2/) - next →: [Verbs: doing words and being words, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/)