Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 16
Signs need punctuation too: "Coffee and cake £3.50.
Who acts: Signs · What happens: need · To what, where: punctuation
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 (Signs), 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 | Signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | punctuation | punctuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | obj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 need | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Coffee | punct |
| 7 | Coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cake | cc |
| 9 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Coffee | conj |
| 10 | £ | £ | SYM | _ | 2 need | obj |
| 11 | 3.50 | 3.50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 £ | nummod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Signs | punctuation | 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:16.
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. 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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