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title: An adjective is a word that describes a noun; a synonym is a word wi… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics
description: An adjective is a word that describes a noun; a synonym is a word with nearly the same meaning, like big and enormous. Who acts: adjective, word, synonym. A sentence of the lesson «Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 5

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An adjective is a word that describes a noun; a synonym is a word with nearly the same meaning, like big and enormous.

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**Who acts:** adjective, word, synonym · **What happens:** be, describe · **To what, where:** word, noun

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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 (adjective, word, synonym), 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:5
# text = An adjective is a word that describes a noun; a synonym is a word with nearly the same meaning, like big and enormous.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adjective	adjective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	synonym	synonym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	.	.	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 | a adjective | a word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **describe** | present | a word | a noun |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | a synonym | a word |  |  |  | with the same meaning; like big | 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:5`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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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