Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 11

Joining two complete sentences with only a comma is a comma splice; use a full stop, a semicolon, or a joining word like "so" or "but".

Who acts: Joining · What happens: join, be, use · To what, where: two complete sentences, comma splice, full stop

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 (Joining), 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	Joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 splice	csubj
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sentences	nummod
3	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sentences	amod
4	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Joining	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 comma	case
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 comma	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 comma	det
8	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sentences	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 splice	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 splice	det
11	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 splice	compound
12	splice	splice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 use	punct
14	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 splice	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stop	det
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stop	amod
17	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 use	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 semicolon	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 semicolon	det
20	semicolon	semicolon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stop	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 word	punct
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	25 word	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 word	det
24	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 word	amod
25	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 splice	parataxis
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 so	case
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 so	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	33 "	advcl
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 so	punct
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 "	cc
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 but	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 so	conj
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 word	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 splice	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	join	gerund		two complete sentences	with a comma	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient with comma=Co-Patient
2	is a	present	Joining	a comma splice		tree rules
3	use	infinitive		a full stop and a semicolon		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stop=Patient
4	join	gerund				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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:11.

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 ×2, 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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