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A sentence of the lesson «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/11/) [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/) / [Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/36-brackets-dashes-colons-semicolons-and-hyphens/) / 11 # Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 11 A semicolon can separate items in a long list when the items already contain commas: "Paris, France; Rome, Italy; and Madrid, Spain." **Who acts:** semicolon, items · **What happens:** separate, contain · **To what, where:** items, long list, commas This is a sentence of the lesson «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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 (semicolon, items), 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:11 # text = A semicolon can separate items in a long list when the items already contain commas: "Paris, France; Rome, Italy; and Madrid, Spain." # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 semicolon semicolon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 separate separate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 items item NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 items item NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 already already ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 15 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Paris Paris PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 France France PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Rome Rome PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 Madrid Madrid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:list 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Spain Spain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:unmarked _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **separate** | can | a semicolon | items | | | | in a long list *goal* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent item=Theme in list=Goal | | 2 | **contain** | present | the items | commas | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot comma=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:11`. **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): R7-rel-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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