--- title: The comparative compares two (bigger, more beautiful); the superlati… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics description: The comparative compares two (bigger, more beautiful); the superlative names the top one (biggest, most beautiful); long adjectives use more and most. Who acts: comparative, superlative, long adjectives. 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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 (comparative, superlative, long 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:12 # text = The comparative compares two (bigger, more beautiful); the superlative names the top one (biggest, most beautiful); long adjectives use more and most. # 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 ×5 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 comparative comparative NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 compares compare VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obj _ _ 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ _ 6 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 9 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 parataxis _ _ 10 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 superlative superlative NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 names name VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 top top ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 19 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 22 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJS:Degree=Sup 22 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 adjectives adjective NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 28 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 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 | **compare** | present | the comparative | two | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient | | 2 | **name** | present | superlative | the top one | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present | long adjectives | more | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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:004-adjectives-and-adverbs.lesson:12`. **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 ×5. **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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/11/) - next →: [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/)