SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 10
If one side of a semicolon could not stand alone as a sentence, the semicolon is wrong there.
Who acts: one side, semicolon · What happens: not stand, be
This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» 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 (one side, semicolon), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 stand | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 side | nummod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 semicolon | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 semicolon | det |
| 6 | semicolon | semicolon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stand | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 stand | advmod |
| 9 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wrong | advcl |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 stand | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 sentence | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sentence | det |
| 13 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stand | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stand | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 semicolon | det |
| 16 | semicolon | semicolon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wrong | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wrong | cop |
| 18 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 wrong | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand a condition, not said to happen | could | one side of a semicolon | as a sentence; alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the semicolon | there | wrong property | tree rules |
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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:10.
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, R7-rel-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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