--- title: In standard English good is an adjective (a good game) and well is t… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics description: In standard English good is an adjective (a good game) and well is the adverb (you played well); "played good" is common in casual speech, especially in America. Who acts: good, you. 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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 (good, you), 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:10 # text = In standard English good is an adjective (a good game) and well is the adverb (you played well); "played good" is common in casual speech, especially in America. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 good good NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 adjective adjective NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 adverb adverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:acl:relcl 21 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obj _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 casual casual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 especially especially ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | good | a adjective and the adverb | | standard English | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the adverb | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **play** | past | you | | | | | well *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | past | | good | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent good=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | present | | | | casual speech | | common *property* | tree rules | 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:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.lesson:10`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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: [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/9/) - next →: [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/)