SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 9
A semicolon can join two full sentences that are closely linked: "It was raining; we stayed in."
Who acts: semicolon, It, we · What happens: join, link, rain, stay in · To what, where: two full sentences
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 (semicolon, It, we), 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 join | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 join | aux |
| 4 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sentences | nummod |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sentences | amod |
| 7 | sentences | sentence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 join | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 linked | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 linked | aux:pass |
| 10 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 11 linked | advmod |
| 11 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sentences | acl:relcl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 raining | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 raining | punct |
| 14 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 raining | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 raining | aux |
| 16 | raining | rain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 linked | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stayed | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 stayed | nsubj |
| 19 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 join | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 stayed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 join | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 join | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | can | a semicolon | two full sentences | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient | ||||
| 2 | link | present · passive | two full sentences | closely property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rain in a quote | past · progressive | It | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 4 | stay in in a quote | past | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.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): 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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