Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 12

Before "however" joining two sentences, use a full stop or a semicolon, with a comma after it: "It rained; however, we played."

Who acts: you, It, we · What happens: join, use, rain, play · To what, where: two sentences, full stop · 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 (you, It, we), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	5 joining	mark
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	9 use	advmod
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	joining	join	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 use	advcl
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 sentences	nummod
7	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 joining	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 joining	punct
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stop	det
11	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stop	amod
12	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 semicolon	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 semicolon	det
15	semicolon	semicolon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stop	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 comma	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 comma	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 comma	det
19	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obl
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 comma	nmod
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 rained	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 rained	punct
24	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rained	nsubj
25	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 played	parataxis
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 rained	punct
27	however	however	ADV	_	30 played	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 played	nsubj
30	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 use	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 played	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 played	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	join	gerund	you not said here	two sentences		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient
2	use	imperative	you not said here	a full stop or a semicolon	with a comma after comma; however property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent stop=Theme clause=Eventuality
3	rain in a quote	past	It			vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
4	play in a quote	past	we		however property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:12.

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. 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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