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title: Friendly, lovely, silly and lonely end in -ly but are adjectives, be… — Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and ac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Friendly, lovely, silly and lonely end in -ly but are adjectives, because they describe nouns. Who acts: Friendly, places. 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 pragmatics of e
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# Adjectives and adverbs: describing things and actions, sentence 9

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Friendly, lovely, silly and lonely end in -ly but are adjectives, because they describe nouns.

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**Who acts:** Friendly, places · **What happens:** end, be, describe · **To what, where:** ly, adjectives, nouns

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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 (Friendly, 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:9
# text = Friendly, lovely, silly and lonely end in -ly but are adjectives, because they describe nouns.
# 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	Friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
3	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	end	end	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	ly	ly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obl	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	adjectives	adjective	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	describe	describe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
19	nouns	noun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none, act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | Friendly |  |  | ly |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Friendly *not said here* | adjectives |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **describe** | present | places *= place* | nouns |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent noun=Theme |

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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:9`.

**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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