Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 5
Commas separate the items in a list: "I bought apples, bananas and grapes."
Who acts: Commas, tiny signpost · What happens: separate, buy · To what, where: items, list, apples · 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 (Commas, tiny signpost), 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 | 2 separate | nsubj |
| 2 | separate | separate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 items | det |
| 4 | items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 separate | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 list | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 list | det |
| 7 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 separate | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 separate | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 bought | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bought | nsubj |
| 11 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 separate | parataxis |
| 12 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bought | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bananas | punct |
| 14 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 apples | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 grapes | cc |
| 16 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 apples | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 separate | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 separate | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | present | Commas | the items | a list | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buy in a quote | past | a tiny signpost = signpost | apples and bananas and grapes | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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