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title: Most English verbs make the past by adding -ed: jump, jumped; these… — Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Most English verbs make the past by adding -ed: jump, jumped; these are regular verbs, but about 200 common ones break the rule: go, went; run, ran; catch, caught; these are irregular. Who acts: Most English verbs, these, 200 common ones, rule. A sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung 
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# Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes, sentence 0

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Most English verbs make the past by adding -ed: jump, jumped; these are regular verbs, but about 200 common ones break the rule: go, went; run, ran; catch, caught; these are irregular.

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**Who acts:** Most English verbs, these, 200 common ones, rule · **What happens:** make, add, jump, be, break, go · **To what, where:** past, ed, regular verbs, rule, run

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» 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 (Most English verbs, these, 200 common ones, rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.lesson:0
# text = Most English verbs make the past by adding -ed: jump, jumped; these are regular verbs, but about 200 common ones break the rule: go, went; run, ran; catch, caught; these are irregular.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.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 ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	adding	add	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
10	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	jump	jump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	parataxis	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	about	about	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
23	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	run	run	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:acl
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	44	nsubj	_	_
43	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Most English verbs | the past |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset past=Product |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | Most English verbs *not said here* | ed and jump |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ed=Patient |
| 3 | **jump** | past | Most English verbs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | these | regular verbs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **break** | present | 200 common ones | the rule |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rule=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | the rule *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | past | the rule *not said here* | run and catch |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **run** | past | the rule *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **catch** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | present | these |  |  |  |  | irregular *property* | 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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**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 ×4, 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.

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