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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 (comma, opening phrase, 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:8 # text = A comma usually follows a fronted adverbial, an opening phrase that tells when, where or how: "After school, we went to the park." # 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, R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 comma comma NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 usually usually ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fronted front VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 adverbial adverbial NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 opening open VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 phrase phrase NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 conj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=14:cc 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 conj _ _ 19 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 21 After after ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | a comma | a fronted adverbial | | | | usually *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adverbial=Theme | | 2 | **front** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **open** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | a opening phrase | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **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 | 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:8`. **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, R2-punct-next ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/7/) - next →: [Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/)