--- title: Commas separate items in a list ("apples, bananas and grapes"), foll… — Commas: lists, clauses and clarity · tree and pragmatics description: Commas separate items in a list ("apples, bananas and grapes"), follow an opening phrase ("After school, we went to the park"), and wrap extra information in a pair, like two hands holding it: "Sam, my friend, came round." Who acts: Commas, we, two hands, Sam. 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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 (Commas, we, two hands, Sam), 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:2 # text = Commas separate items in a list ("apples, bananas and grapes"), follow an opening phrase ("After school, we went to the park"), and wrap extra information in a pair, like two hands holding it: "Sam, my friend, came round." # 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 ×2 1 Commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 separate separate VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 items item NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 bananas banana NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 grapes grape NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 17 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 opening opening ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ _ 23 After after ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 wrap wrap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 36 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 like like ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ _ 45 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 acl _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 : : PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 48 " " PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ _ 49 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 appos _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 54 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 55 round round ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 57 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **separate** | present | Commas | items | | a list | | | tree rules | | 2 | **follow** | present | Commas *not said here* | a opening phrase | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phrase=Theme | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | past | we | | | the park | after school | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to park=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **wrap** | present | Commas *not said here* | extra information | | a pair like two hands | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent information=Theme in pair=Destination | | 5 | **hold** | gerund | two hands *not said here* | comma | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **come round** *in a quote* | past | Sam | | | | | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:2`. **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 ×2. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/1/) - next →: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/)