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title: Many irregular verbs have become regular over hundreds of years; rea… — Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mis… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many irregular verbs have become regular over hundreds of years; reach once had an old past form like "raught" and now just says reached. Who acts: Many irregular verbs, reach. A sentence of the lesson «Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes» of the language course of Mova's primary s
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# Irregular verbs: goed, brung and other brave mistakes, sentence 9

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Many irregular verbs have become regular over hundreds of years; reach once had an old past form like "raught" and now just says reached.

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**Who acts:** Many irregular verbs, reach · **What happens:** become, have, say, reach · **To what, where:** old past form · **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 (Many irregular verbs, reach), 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:9
# text = Many irregular verbs have become regular over hundreds of years; reach once had an old past form like "raught" and now just says reached.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	raught	raught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present · perfect | Many irregular verbs |  |  |  |  | regular *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | reach | a old past form |  |  |  | like raught; once *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | reach *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **reach** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «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:009-irregular-verbs-goed-brung-and-brave-mistakes.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): R5-strong ×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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