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title: Big numbers often use commas to group digits in threes: 1,000 and 25… — Commas: lists, clauses and clarity · tree and pragmatics
description: Big numbers often use commas to group digits in threes: 1,000 and 25,000. Who acts: Big numbers. 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 16

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Big numbers often use commas to group digits in threes: 1,000 and 25,000.

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**Who acts:** Big numbers · **What happens:** use, group · **To what, where:** commas, digits, threes

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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 (Big numbers), 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:16
# text = Big numbers often use commas to group digits in threes: 1,000 and 25,000.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	commas	comma	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	group	group	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	digits	digit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	threes	three	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc
14	25,000	25000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	.	.	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 | **use** | present | Big numbers | commas |  |  |  | 1,000 *obl*; often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comma=Patient |
| 2 | **group** | to-infinitive | Big numbers *not said here* | digits |  |  |  | in threes *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent digit=Theme in three=Goal |

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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:16`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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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