Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 9
A long sentence is not a run-on if it is punctuated properly.
Who acts: long sentence · What happens: not be, punctuate · To what, where: run, sentence
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 (long sentence), 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 | 3 sentence | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sentence | amod |
| 3 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 run | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 run | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 run | det |
| 7 | run | run | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 on | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 7 run | compound |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 punctuated | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 punctuated | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 punctuated | aux:pass |
| 13 | punctuated | punctuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 run | advcl |
| 14 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 13 punctuated | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 run | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a long sentence | a run | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | punctuate a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | sentence | properly property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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: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): R6-punct-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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