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title: Some describing words are old and irregular: good, better, best and… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some describing words are old and irregular: good, better, best and bad, worse, worst; and places invent their own, like "bostin'" (brilliant) in the Black Country or "wicked" (very) in Boston. Who acts: describing words, places. A sentence of the lesson «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things an
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# Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 4

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Some describing words are old and irregular: good, better, best and bad, worse, worst; and places invent their own, like "bostin'" (brilliant) in the Black Country or "wicked" (very) in Boston.

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**Who acts:** describing words, places · **What happens:** describe, be, invent · **To what, where:** own

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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 (describing words, places), 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:4
# text = Some describing words are old and irregular: good, better, best and bad, worse, worst; and places invent their own, like "bostin'" (brilliant) in the Black Country or "wicked" (very) in Boston.
# 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 ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	describing	describe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	invent	invent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	bostin	bostin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
33	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	appos	_	_
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	38	compound	_	_
38	Country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	_
41	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	41	punct	_	_
43	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	44	punct	_	_
44	very	very	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
45	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Boston	Boston	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | some describing words |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | some describing words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | some describing words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | some describing words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **invent** | present | places | words's own |  |  |  | like bostin in the Black Country | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Result |

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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:4`.

**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 ×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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