--- title: English keeps making new verbs from nouns (to hoover, to google) and… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: English keeps making new verbs from nouns (to hoover, to google) and gives old verbs new slang meanings, like "she ate that" for "she did it brilliantly"; local verbs live on too, like Geordie "gan" for go. Who acts: English, local verbs. 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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 (English, local verbs), 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:4 # text = English keeps making new verbs from nouns (to hoover, to google) and gives old verbs new slang meanings, like "she ate that" for "she did it brilliantly"; local verbs live on too, like Geordie "gan" for 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 xcomp _ _ 4 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 nouns noun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 10 hoover hoover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 google Google PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj 19 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 like like SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 29 for for SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 brilliantly brilliantly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 " " PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 too too ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=39:obl 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 Geordie geordie NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ _ 45 " " PUNCT `` _ 46 punct _ _ 46 gan gan ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 47 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ _ 48 for for ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 50 . . 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 | **keep** | present | English | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | gerund | English *not said here* | new verbs | | nouns | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset verb=Product from noun=Material | | 3 | **hoover** | infinitive | | google | | | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent google=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **give** | present | English *not said here* | new slang meanings | old verbs and Geordie | | | for go | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent verb=Recipient meaning=Theme for go=Asset | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | English | that | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | past | English | doer | | | | brilliantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 7 | **live** | present | local verbs | old verbs and Geordie *not said here* | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme verb=Location | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/3/) - next →: [Verbs: doing words and being words, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/)