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title: Good, better, best and bad, worse, worst are irregular comparisons. — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Good, better, best and bad, worse, worst are irregular comparisons. Who acts: Good. A sentence of the lesson «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 13

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Good, better, best and bad, worse, worst are irregular comparisons.

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**Who acts:** Good · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** irregular comparisons

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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 (Good), 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:13
# text = Good, better, best and bad, worse, worst are irregular comparisons.
# 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): no change
1	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	conj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	comparisons	comparison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is a** | present | Good | irregular comparisons |  |  |  |  | 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:13`.

**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): no change. **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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