Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 7

Dashes give a stronger break than brackets or commas, and can make writing more dramatic; used too often they lose their effect.

Who acts: Dashes · What happens: give, make, use, lose, effect · To what, where: stronger break, writing, effect

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 (Dashes), 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	Dashes	dash	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 break	det
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 break	amod
5	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 brackets	case
7	brackets	bracket	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 break	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 commas	cc
9	commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 brackets	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 make	cc
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 make	aux
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 give	conj
14	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	obj
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 dramatic	advmod
16	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 make	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 used	punct
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 lose	advcl
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 often	advmod
20	often	often	ADV	_	18 used	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lose	nsubj
22	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	parataxis
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 effect	nmod:poss
24	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lose	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	Dashes	a stronger break	than brackets or commas	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Theme
2	make	can	Dashes not said here	writing	dramatic property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset writing=Product
3	use	participle	dashes = dash not said here		often property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lose	present	dashes = dash	dashes's effect		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Eventuality
5	effect		dashes = dash			nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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:7.

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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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