Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 13

Commas do not go between every word; too many commas make writing harder to read.

Who acts: Commas, many commas · What happens: not go, make, read · To what, where: word, writing

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 (Commas, many commas), 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	Commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 word	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 many	advmod
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 commas	amod
11	commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	nsubj
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 go	parataxis
13	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 make	obj
14	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 make	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 read	mark
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 harder	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	present · do-support	Commas		every word		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between word=Location
2	make	present	many commas	writing		hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset writing=Product
3	read	to-infinitive	many commas not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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:13.

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): R8-pos-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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