--- title: Extra information in the middle of a sentence is wrapped in a pair o… — Commas: lists, clauses and clarity · tree and pragmatics description: Extra information in the middle of a sentence is wrapped in a pair of commas: "My sister, who is 12, likes horses." Who acts: sister. A sentence of the lesson «Commas: lists, clauses and clarity» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/) / 10 # Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 10 Extra information in the middle of a sentence is wrapped in a pair of commas: "My sister, who is 12, likes horses." **Who acts:** sister · **What happens:** wrap, be, like · **To what, where:** Extra information, pair, 12, horses · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Commas: lists, clauses and clarity» of the english 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 (sister), 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:10 # text = Extra information in the middle of a sentence is wrapped in a pair of commas: "My sister, who is 12, likes horses." # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 likes like VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 26 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ 28 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wrap** | present · passive | | Extra information in the middle of a sentence | | a pair of commas | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | My sister | 12 | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **like** *in a quote* | present | My sister | horses | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot horse=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:10`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/9/) - next →: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/)