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title: Piling up describing words doesn't make writing stronger: "the big,… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Piling up describing words doesn't make writing stronger: "the big, enormous, gigantic dog" says "big" three times; two sharp adjectives that each add something new are better. Who acts: Piling, big enormous gigantic dog, two sharp adjectives. A sentence of the lesson «Adjectives and adverbs: descri
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# Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 1

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Piling up describing words doesn't make writing stronger: "the big, enormous, gigantic dog" says "big" three times; two sharp adjectives that each add something new are better.

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**Who acts:** Piling, big enormous gigantic dog, two sharp adjectives · **What happens:** pile up, describe, not make, say, add, be · **To what, where:** words, writing, big, something · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Piling, big enormous gigantic dog, two sharp adjectives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.lesson:1
# text = Piling up describing words doesn't make writing stronger: "the big, enormous, gigantic dog" says "big" three times; two sharp adjectives that each add something new are better.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 004-adjectives-and-adverbs.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Piling	pile	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	describing	describe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:amod
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	parataxis	_	_
8	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	xcomp	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:amod
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
32	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
33	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	32	obj	_	_
34	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile up** | gerund |  | words |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme word=Destination |
| 2 | **describe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Piling | writing |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset writing=Product |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the big enormous gigantic dog | big |  |  | time |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent big=Topic |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | two sharp adjectives | something |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | two sharp adjectives |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.lesson:1`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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