Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 9
A colon comes after a complete sentence and introduces a list, an explanation or an example.
Who acts: colon · What happens: come, introduce · To what, where: list
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 (colon), 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 colon | det |
| 2 | colon | colon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 sentence | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sentence | det |
| 6 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sentence | amod |
| 7 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 introduces | cc |
| 9 | introduces | introduce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 list | det |
| 11 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 introduces | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 explanation | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 explanation | det |
| 14 | explanation | explanation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 list | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 example | cc |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 example | det |
| 17 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 list | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | 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 | come | present | a colon | after a complete sentence | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | introduce | present | a colon not said here | a list and a explanation or a example | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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