Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 11
A semicolon can separate items in a long list when the items already contain commas: "Paris, France; Rome, Italy; and Madrid, Spain."
Who acts: semicolon, items · What happens: separate, contain · To what, where: items, long list, commas
This is a sentence of the lesson «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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 (semicolon, items), 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 semicolon | det |
| 2 | semicolon | semicolon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 separate | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 separate | aux |
| 4 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 separate | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 list | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 list | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 list | amod |
| 9 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 separate | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 contain | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 items | det |
| 12 | items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 contain | nsubj |
| 13 | already | already | ADV | _ | 14 contain | advmod |
| 14 | contain | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 separate | advcl |
| 15 | commas | comma | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 contain | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Paris | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Paris | punct |
| 18 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 commas | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 France | punct |
| 20 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Paris | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Rome | punct |
| 22 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Paris | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Italy | punct |
| 24 | Italy | Italy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Rome | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 Madrid | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Madrid | cc |
| 27 | Madrid | Madrid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Paris | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Spain | punct |
| 29 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Madrid | nmod:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 separate | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 separate | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | can | a semicolon | items | in a long list goal | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent item=Theme in list=Goal | |||
| 2 | contain | present | the items | commas | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot comma=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:036-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens.lesson:11.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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