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title: "Went" was once the past of the old verb "wend", meaning to go; when… — Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mis… · tree and pragmatics
description: "Went" was once the past of the old verb "wend", meaning to go; when a verb's forms come from different words, it is called suppletion, and "be" (am, is, was, were) is built the same patchwork way. Who acts: Went, old verb, forms, verb. A sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and othe
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# Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes, sentence 14

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"Went" was once the past of the old verb "wend", meaning to go; when a verb's forms come from different words, it is called suppletion, and "be" (am, is, was, were) is built the same patchwork way.

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**Who acts:** Went, old verb, forms, verb · **What happens:** be, mean, go, come, call, build · **To what, where:** past, different words, chippy, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Went, old verb, forms, verb), 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:14
# text = "Went" was once the past of the old verb "wend", meaning to go; when a verb's forms come from different words, it is called suppletion, and "be" (am, is, was, were) is built the same patchwork way.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Went	went	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	wend	wend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
33	suppletion	suppletion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	xcomp	_	_
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
37	be	be	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	40	punct	_	_
40	am	a.m.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
46	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
47	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	patchwork	patchwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | am *obl*; went *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Went | the past |  |  |  | of the old verb; once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | gerund | the old verb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the old verb *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | present | a verb's forms |  |  | different words |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | chippy |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 7 | **be** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **build** | present · passive |  | be |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary way=Product |
| 9 | **form** |  | a verb |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.lesson:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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