Grammar puzzles, part one, sentence 13

Commas in a list separate the items; a comma before the last "and" is called the Oxford comma, and British writers often leave it out.

Who acts: Commas, British writers · What happens: separate, call, leave out · To what, where: items, comma · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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 (Commas, British writers), 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	Commas	comma	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 separate	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 list	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 list	det
4	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Commas	nmod
5	separate	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 items	det
7	items	item	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 separate	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 comma	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 comma	det
10	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	nsubj:pass
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 last	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 last	det
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 comma	nmod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux:pass
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 separate	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 comma	det
20	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 comma	compound
21	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 leave	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 leave	cc
24	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 writers	amod
25	writers	writer	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 leave	nsubj
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 leave	advmod
27	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 called	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 leave	obj
29	out	out	ADP	_	27 leave	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 separate	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	separate	present	Commas in a list	the items		vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent item=Patient
2	call	present · passive		a comma before the last		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	leave out	present	British writers	comma	often property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:13.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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