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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 (you, It, we), 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:12 # text = Before "however" joining two sentences, use a full stop or a semicolon, with a comma after it: "It rained; however, we played." # 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 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 3 however however ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 joining join VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 6 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 semicolon semicolon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 comma comma NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 20 after after ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 rained rain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 27 however however ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod 28 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 29 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | gerund | you *not said here* | two sentences | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient | | 2 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | a full stop or a semicolon | | | | with a comma after comma; however *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent stop=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **rain** *in a quote* | past | It | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | past | we | | | | | however *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «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:033-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity.lesson:12`. **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. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/11/) - next →: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/)