--- title: A sentence is a group of words with a subject and a verb that makes… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: A sentence is a group of words with a subject and a verb that makes complete sense; every full sentence has at least one verb. Who acts: sentence, verb, full 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 (sentence, verb, full 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:6 # text = A sentence is a group of words with a subject and a verb that makes complete sense; every full 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): R1-cc-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 group group NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 subject subject NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 20 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 25 nmod _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 . . 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 | **is a** | present | a sentence | a group | | | | of words with a subject and a verb | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | a verb | complete sense | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product | | 3 | **have** | present | every full 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:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/5/) - next →: [Verbs: doing words and being words, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/)