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title: A comma follows a subordinate clause that comes first: "When it rain… — Commas: lists, clauses and clarity · tree and pragmatics
description: A comma follows a subordinate clause that comes first: "When it rained, we went inside." Who acts: comma, subordinate clause, it, we. 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 clau
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# Commas: lists, clauses and clarity, sentence 9

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A comma follows a subordinate clause that comes first: "When it rained, we went inside."

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**Who acts:** comma, subordinate clause, it, we · **What happens:** follow, come, rain, go · **To what, where:** subordinate clause

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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, subordinate clause, it, 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:9
# text = A comma follows a subordinate clause that comes first: "When it rained, we went inside."
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comma	comma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	subordinate	subordinate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	clause	clause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
12	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rained	rain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	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 | **follow** | present | a comma | a subordinate clause |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | a subordinate clause |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rain** *in a quote* | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | past | we |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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