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title: A comma also cuts off a little tag word added at the end, like "eh"… — Commas: lists, clauses and clarity · tree and pragmatics
description: A comma also cuts off a little tag word added at the end, like "eh" or "innit": "It's cold, eh." Who acts: comma. 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 15

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A comma also cuts off a little tag word added at the end, like "eh" or "innit": "It's cold, eh."

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**Who acts:** comma · **What happens:** cut off, add, be · **To what, where:** little tag word, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (comma), 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:15
# text = A comma also cuts off a little tag word added at the end, like "eh" or "innit": "It's cold, eh."
# 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comma	comma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	cuts	cut	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	tag	tag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	eh	eh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	_
25	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	27	discourse	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	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 | **cut off** | present | a comma | a little tag word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | a little tag word *not said here* |  |  | at the end |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | comma |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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/).

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