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title: Commas do not go between every word; too many commas make writing ha… — Commas: lists, clauses and clarity · tree and pragmatics
description: Commas do not go between every word; too many commas make writing harder to read. Who acts: Commas, many commas. 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 clause.
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# Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 13

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Commas do not go between every word; too many commas make writing harder to read.

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**Who acts:** Commas, many commas · **What happens:** not go, make, read · **To what, where:** word, writing

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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 (Commas, many commas), 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:13
# text = Commas do not go between every word; too many commas make writing harder to read.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Commas	comma	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	commas	comma	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger
14	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	xcomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go** | present · do-support | Commas |  |  | every word |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between word=Location |
| 2 | **make** | present | many commas | writing |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset writing=Product |
| 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | many commas *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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:13`.

**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): 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/).

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