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title: An adverb tells you more about a verb, an adjective or another adver… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics
description: An adverb tells you more about a verb, an adjective or another adverb, answering how, when, where or how often. Who acts: adverb. 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 pragmati
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# Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 7

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An adverb tells you more about a verb, an adjective or another adverb, answering how, when, where or how often.

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**Who acts:** adverb · **What happens:** tell, answer · **To what, where:** more, you · **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 (adverb), 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:7
# text = An adverb tells you more about a verb, an adjective or another adverb, answering how, when, where or how often.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adverb	adverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nsubj
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	adjective	adjective	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:appos
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	adverb	adverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a adverb | more | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient more=Topic |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | a adverb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:7`.

**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/).

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