Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 8
A dash is longer than a hyphen and usually has a space on each side; a hyphen is short and has no spaces.
Who acts: dash, hyphen · What happens: be, have · To what, where: space, side, spaces
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 (dash, hyphen), 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 dash | det |
| 2 | dash | dash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 longer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 longer | cop |
| 4 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 hyphen | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hyphen | det |
| 7 | hyphen | hyphen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 longer | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 has | cc |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 has | advmod |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 longer | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 space | det |
| 12 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 side | det |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 space | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 short | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hyphen | det |
| 18 | hyphen | hyphen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 short | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 short | cop |
| 20 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 has | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 has | cc |
| 22 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 short | conj |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 spaces | det |
| 24 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 has | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 longer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a dash | than a hyphen; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a dash not said here | a space | each side | usually property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient | ||
| 3 | is | present | a hyphen | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | a hyphen not said here | no spaces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient |
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:8.
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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