Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 7
"Eats, Shoots and Leaves" is the title of a famous British book about punctuation; shoots are young plant stems.
Who acts: Eats, shoots · What happens: be · To what, where: title, young plant stems
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 (Eats, shoots), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eats | punct |
| 2 | Eats | eat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 title | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Shoots | punct |
| 4 | Shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Eats | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Leaves | cc |
| 6 | Leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Shoots | conj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eats | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 title | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 title | det |
| 10 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 book | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 book | det |
| 13 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 book | amod |
| 14 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 book | amod |
| 15 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 title | nmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 punctuation | case |
| 17 | punctuation | punctuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 book | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stems | punct |
| 19 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stems | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stems | cop |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stems | amod |
| 22 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stems | compound |
| 23 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 title | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 title | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Eats and Shoots and Leaves | the title | of a famous British book about punctuation | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | present | shoots | young plant stems | 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:7.
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, 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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