--- title: The punctuation that ends the spoken words goes inside the closing i… — Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers · tree and pragmatics description: The punctuation that ends the spoken words goes inside the closing inverted commas. Who acts: punctuation. A sentence of the lesson «Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/35-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Direct speech: inverted commas and new…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/35-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers/) / 6 # Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers, sentence 6 The punctuation that ends the spoken words goes inside the closing inverted commas. **Who acts:** punctuation · **What happens:** end, speak, go, close, invert · **To what, where:** spoken words, closing inverted commas · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers» 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 (punctuation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:6 # text = The punctuation that ends the spoken words goes inside the closing inverted commas. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 punctuation punctuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 inside inside ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 closing close VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 12 inverted invert VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | present | the punctuation | the spoken words | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality word=Eventuality | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | present | the punctuation | | | the closing inverted commas | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside comma=Location | | 4 | **close** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **invert** | participle | | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | 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:035-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers.lesson:6`. **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): R8-pos-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. 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