Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 14
Yes and no at the start of an answer are followed by a comma: "Yes, I can come."
Who acts: comma, opening phrase · What happens: follow, come, start · To what, where: Yes, start, answer · 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 (comma, opening phrase), 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 | Yes | yes | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 no | cc |
| 3 | no | no | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Yes | conj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 start | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 start | det |
| 6 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 answer | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 answer | det |
| 9 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 start | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 followed | aux:pass |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 comma | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 comma | det |
| 14 | comma | comma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 17 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 21 come | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Yes | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 followed | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present · passive | a comma | Yes and no | the start of a answer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | can | a opening phrase = phrase | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | start | a answer | nom start «event transitive»: of=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:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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