Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 1

The famous one: "Let's eat Grandma!" makes Grandma the dinner, while "Let's eat, Grandma!" invites her to the table; the comma before a name you're talking to saves lives.

Who acts: 's, famous one, you · What happens: let, eat, make, invite, talk · To what, where: 's, Grandma, dinner, name

This is a sentence of the lesson «Punctuation that changes meaning» 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 ('s, famous one, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
6	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 one	appos
7	's	us	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 Let	obj
8	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Let	xcomp
9	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eat	obj
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Let	punct
12	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 invites	advcl
13	Grandma	Grandma	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 makes	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dinner	det
15	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 makes	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 Let	mark
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
19	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 makes	conj
20	's	us	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 Let	obj
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 Let	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Grandma	punct
23	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	vocative
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 Let	punct
26	invites	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 invites	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 table	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 table	det
30	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 invites	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 comma	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 comma	det
33	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 invites	conj
34	before	before	ADP	_	36 name	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 name	det
36	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 comma	nmod
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 talking	nsubj
38	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 talking	aux
39	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 name	acl:relcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 lives	case
41	saves	save	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 lives	compound
42	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 talking	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 makes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		's			tree rules
2	eat in a quote	infinitive	's not said here	Grandma			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Patient
3	make	present	the famous one	the dinner	Grandma		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset grandma=Beneficiary dinner=Product
4	let in a quote	infinitive	the famous one not said here	's			tree rules
5	eat in a quote	infinitive	's not said here			Grandma vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	invite	present			Grandma	to the table	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7	talk	present · progressive	you	a name not said here		to saves lives	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:language:014-punctuation-that-changes-meaning.lesson:1.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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