Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 16
Big numbers often use commas to group digits in threes: 1,000 and 25,000.
Who acts: Big numbers · What happens: use, group · To what, where: commas, digits, threes
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 (Big numbers), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 numbers | amod |
| 2 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 use | advmod |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | commas | comma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 use | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 group | mark |
| 7 | group | group | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 commas | acl |
| 8 | digits | digit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 group | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 threes | case |
| 10 | threes | three | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 digits | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 1,000 | punct |
| 12 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 use | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 25,000 | cc |
| 14 | 25,000 | 25000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 1,000 | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Big numbers | commas | 1,000 obl; often property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comma=Patient | |||
| 2 | group | to-infinitive | Big numbers not said here | digits | in threes goal | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent digit=Theme in three=Goal |
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:16.
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. 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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