--- title: The famous joke shows its power: "Let's eat, Grandma!" invites Grand… — Commas: lists, clauses and clarity · tree and pragmatics description: The famous joke shows its power: "Let's eat, Grandma!" invites Grandma to dinner, while "Let's eat Grandma!" puts her on the menu; one little mark saves a whole gran. Who acts: famous joke, 's, one little mark. 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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 (famous joke, 's, one little mark), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.lesson:1 # text = The famous joke shows its power: "Let's eat, Grandma!" invites Grandma to dinner, while "Let's eat Grandma!" puts her on the menu; one little mark saves a whole gran. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 16 invites invite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 24 's we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 29 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 30 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 on on ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 menu menu NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 34 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | the famous joke | joke's power | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent power=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | Grandma | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **invite** | present | | Grandma | | | | to dinner | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent grandma=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | Grandma | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Patient | | 7 | **put** | present | | next | | the menu | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on menu=Destination | | 8 | **save** | present | one little mark | a whole gran | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gran=Theme | 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:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/0/) - next →: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/)