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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 (Adjectives), 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:6 # text = Adjectives usually go in this order: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose, as in "a lovely little old round red French wooden toy box". # 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): R7-rel-agree ×8 1 Adjectives adjective NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 usually usually ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 6 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 opinion opinion NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 shape shape NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 origin origin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 material material NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 23 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 36 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 25 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 28 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 31 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 32 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 33 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 wooden wooden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 toy toy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | Adjectives | opinion and size and age and shape and colour and origin and material and purpose | | this order | | usually *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in order=Location | 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:6`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×8. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/5/) - next →: [Adjectives and adverbs: describing thi…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/4-adjectives-and-adverbs/)