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title: "Most bestest" doubles the top form; it is fine for fun, but school… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Most bestest" doubles the top form; it is fine for fun, but school writing says "the best". Who acts: bestest, form, school writing. 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 prag
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# Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 14

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"Most bestest" doubles the top form; it is fine for fun, but school writing says "the best".

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**Who acts:** bestest, form, school writing · **What happens:** double, be, say · **To what, where:** top form, best · **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 (bestest, form, school writing), 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:14
# text = "Most bestest" doubles the top form; it is fine for fun, but school writing says "the best".
# 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
2	Most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	bestest	best	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
5	doubles	double	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:parataxis
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12: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 | **double** | present | bestest | the top form |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | form |  |  |  |  | for fun; fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | school writing | the best |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic |

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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:14`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-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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