--- title: An adverb describes a verb, often telling how something happens: in… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: An adverb describes a verb, often telling how something happens: in "She ran quickly", "quickly" is an adverb. Who acts: adverb, something. A sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [The big language quiz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/) / 4 # The big language quiz, sentence 4 An adverb describes a verb, often telling how something happens: in "She ran quickly", "quickly" is an adverb. **Who acts:** adverb, something · **What happens:** describe, tell, happen, run, be · **To what, where:** verb, adverb · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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, something), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:4 # text = An adverb describes a verb, often telling how something happens: in "She ran quickly", "quickly" is an adverb. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 040-the-big-language-quiz.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 adverb adverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 often often ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 advcl _ _ 9 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 nsubj _ _ 11 happens happen VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 in in SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 17 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 21 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 adverb adverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **describe** | present | a adverb | a verb | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent verb=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | a adverb *not said here* | | | | | often, quickly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **happen** | present | something | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **run** *in a quote* | past | adverb | | | | | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | a adverb *not said here* | a adverb | | | | | tree rules | 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:040-the-big-language-quiz.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 ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The big language quiz, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/3/) - next →: [The big language quiz, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/)