--- title: If the sentence continues after the speech, the spoken words end wit… — Direct speech: inverted commas and new speakers · tree and pragmatics description: If the sentence continues after the speech, the spoken words end with a comma, not a full stop: "Hello," said Sam. Who acts: sentence, spoken words, 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 (sentence, spoken words, Sam), 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:7 # text = If the sentence continues after the speech, the spoken words end with a comma, not a full stop: "Hello," said Sam. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 continues continue VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 end end VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 comma comma NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 21 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Hello hello INTJ UH _ 26 discourse _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 27 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **continue** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the sentence | | | | after the speech | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **end** | present | the spoken words | | | | | with a comma | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with comma=Subeventuality | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Sam | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:7`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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. 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