--- title: Brackets, dashes and commas can all hold extra information that you… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens · tree and pragmatics description: Brackets, dashes and commas can all hold extra information that you could lift out and still leave a full sentence: "My dog (a spaniel) loves walks" still works as "My dog loves walks"; this extra part is called parenthesis. Who acts: Brackets, you, dog. 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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 (Brackets, you, dog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:036-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens.lesson:0 # text = Brackets, dashes and commas can all hold extra information that you could lift out and still leave a full sentence: "My dog (a spaniel) loves walks" still works as "My dog loves walks"; this extra part is called parenthesis. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 036-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Brackets bracket NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 dashes dash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=3:conj 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 all all ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 obj _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 lift lift VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 24 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 spaniel spaniel NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 31 walks walk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 33 still still ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ccomp _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 37 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 loves love VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 40 walks walk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=40:punct 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 44 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 48 parenthesis parenthesis NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 xcomp _ _ 49 . . 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 | **hold** | can | Brackets and dashes and commas | extra information | | | | all *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Theme | | 2 | **lift out** | could | you | extra information | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 3 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a full sentence | | | still | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | | 4 | **love** *in a quote* | present | My dog | walks | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | present | My dog *not said here* | | | | still | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **love** *in a quote* | present | My dog | walks | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer walk=Stimulus | | 7 | **call** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | this extra part | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:036-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens.lesson:0`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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: [Direct speech: inverted commas and new…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/35-direct-speech-inverted-commas-and-new-speakers/15/) - next →: [Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons a…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/)