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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 (Many adverbs, ly words, word), 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:3 # text = Many adverbs end in -ly, but not all (fast, soon, often), and some -ly words are adjectives (a friendly dog, a lonely cat); check what the word describes. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 adverbs adverb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 ly ly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 conj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 12 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 often often ADV RB _ 12 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 det _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 ly ly NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 adjectives adjective NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 29 punct _ _ 35 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 40 obj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 41 . . 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 | **end** | present | Many adverbs | | | ly | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **is a** | present | some ly words | adjectives | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **check** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **describe** | present | the word | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme | 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:3`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/2/) - next →: [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/)