Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 10
Extra information in the middle of a sentence is wrapped in a pair of commas: "My sister, who is 12, likes horses."
Who acts: sister · What happens: wrap, be, like · To what, where: Extra information, pair, 12, horses · 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 (sister), 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 | Extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 information | amod |
| 2 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 middle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 information | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sentence | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sentence | det |
| 8 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 10 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pair | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pair | det |
| 13 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wrapped | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 commas | case |
| 15 | commas | comma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pair | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 wrapped | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sister | punct |
| 18 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 likes | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 12 | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 12 | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 12 | cop |
| 23 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 19 sister | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 likes | punct |
| 25 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 wrapped | parataxis |
| 26 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 likes | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 sister | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | present · passive | Extra information in the middle of a sentence | a pair of commas | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | My sister | 12 | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | My sister | horses | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horse=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:10.
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 ×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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