--- title: Action verbs show actions you can see, like swim, jump and kick; men… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: Action verbs show actions you can see, like swim, jump and kick; mental verbs show thinking, knowing or feeling, like think, know and believe. Who acts: Action verbs, you, mental 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 (Action verbs, you, mental 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:8 # text = Action verbs show actions you can see, like swim, jump and kick; mental verbs show thinking, knowing or feeling, like think, know and believe. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Action action NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 actions action NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 swim swim NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 kick kick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 mental mental ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 19 thinking thinking NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 knowing know VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 feeling feel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 like like SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=26:punct 28 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | Action verbs | actions | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent action=Recipient | | 2 | **see** | can | you | actions *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer action=Stimulus | | 3 | **jump** | infinitive | Action verbs *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **kick** | infinitive | Action verbs *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **show** | present | mental verbs | thinking | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thinking=Recipient | | 6 | **know** | gerund | mental verbs *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **feel** | gerund | mental verbs *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | present | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **know** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **believe** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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:8`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/7/) - next →: [Verbs: doing words and being words, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/)