Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 15
A comma also cuts off a little tag word added at the end, like "eh" or "innit": "It's cold, eh."
Who acts: comma · What happens: cut off, add, be · To what, where: little tag word, end · 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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 comma | det |
| 2 | comma | comma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cuts | nsubj |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 cuts | advmod |
| 4 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 cuts | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 word | amod |
| 8 | tag | tag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | compound |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cuts | obj |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 word | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eh | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 eh | case |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 eh | punct |
| 17 | eh | eh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 word | appos |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 eh | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 innit | cc |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 innit | punct |
| 21 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eh | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 innit | punct |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 cold | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 cold | punct |
| 25 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 cold | nsubj |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 cold | cop |
| 27 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cuts | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cold | punct |
| 29 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 27 cold | discourse |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 cold | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | present | a comma | a little tag word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | participle | a little tag word not said here | at the end | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | comma | cold property | tree rules |
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:15.
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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