--- title: A semicolon joins two complete sentences that are closely related: "… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens · tree and pragmatics description: A semicolon joins two complete sentences that are closely related: "It rained; we stayed in." Who acts: semicolon, two complete sentences, It, we. 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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 (semicolon, two complete sentences, It, we), 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:10 # text = A semicolon joins two complete sentences that are closely related: "It rained; we stayed in." # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 semicolon semicolon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 joins join VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 closely closely ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 related related ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 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 10 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 in in ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | present | a semicolon | two complete sentences | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | two complete sentences | | | | | closely, related *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **rain** *in a quote* | past | It | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **stay in** *in a quote* | past | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:10`. **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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