--- title: Sometimes the relative clause is extra information, and then a pair… — Relative clauses · tree and pragmatics description: Sometimes the relative clause is extra information, and then a pair of commas fences it off: «The dog, which was barking loudly, ran away.» Cover the part between the commas and the sentence still works. Who acts: relative clause, pair, dog, sentence. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relative clause, pair, dog, sentence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:030-relative-clauses.lesson:8 # text = Sometimes the relative clause is extra information, and then a pair of commas fences it off: «The dog, which was barking loudly, ran away.» Cover the part between the commas and the sentence still works. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 030-relative-clauses.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 7 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 relative relative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 clause clause NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 fences fence VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 barking bark VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 28 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Cover cover VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 between between ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 still still ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:conj 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the relative clause | extra information | | | | sometimes *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fence off** | present | a pair of commas | race | | | then | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | | 3 | **bark** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the dog | | | | | loudly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **run away** *in a quote* | past | the dog | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cover** | infinitive | | the part | | | | between the commas | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Destination | | 6 | **work** | present | the sentence | | | | still | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:030-relative-clauses.lesson:8`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Relative clauses, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/30-relative-clauses/6/) - next →: [Relative clauses, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/30-relative-clauses/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/30-relative-clauses/)