Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 1

The famous joke shows its power: "Let's eat, Grandma!" invites Grandma to dinner, while "Let's eat Grandma!" puts her on the menu; one little mark saves a whole gran.

Who acts: famous joke, 's, one little mark · What happens: show, let, eat, invite, put, save · To what, where: power, 's, Grandma, next, menu, whole gran · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Commas: lists, clauses and clarity» of the english 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 (famous joke, 's, one little mark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 joke	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 joke	amod
3	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	nsubj
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 power	nmod:poss
6	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shows	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
9	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 shows	parataxis
10	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Let	obj
11	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Let	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Grandma	punct
13	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eat	obl
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Let	punct
16	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shows	parataxis
17	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 invites	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 dinner	case
19	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 invites	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Let	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 Let	mark
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Let	punct
23	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 invites	ccomp
24	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Let	obj
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 Let	xcomp
26	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eat	obj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 Let	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 Let	punct
29	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 invites	conj
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 puts	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 menu	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 menu	det
33	menu	menu	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 puts	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 saves	punct
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 mark	nummod
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mark	amod
37	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saves	nsubj
38	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 puts	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 gran	det
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 gran	amod
41	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saves	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	show	present	the famous joke	joke's power			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent power=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let in a quote	infinitive		's			tree rules
3	eat in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	Grandma			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	invite	present		Grandma		to dinner	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent grandma=Recipient clause=Topic
5	let in a quote	infinitive		's			tree rules
6	eat in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	Grandma			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Patient
7	put	present		next	the menu		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on menu=Destination
8	save	present	one little mark	a whole gran			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Theme

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, 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:english:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.lesson:1.

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, 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.

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