Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 9
A comma follows a subordinate clause that comes first: "When it rained, we went inside."
Who acts: comma, subordinate clause, it, we · What happens: follow, come, rain, go · To what, where: subordinate clause
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, subordinate clause, it, we), 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 | 3 follows | nsubj |
| 3 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 clause | det |
| 5 | subordinate | subordinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 clause | amod |
| 6 | clause | clause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follows | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 clause | acl:relcl |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 comes | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 follows | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 follows | punct |
| 12 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 rained | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rained | nsubj |
| 14 | rained | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rained | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 follows | conj |
| 18 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follows | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 follows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | a comma | a subordinate clause | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | present | a subordinate clause | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rain in a quote | past | it | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past | we | inside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.
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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