--- title: A hyphen joins words to make one meaning, especially describing word… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens · tree and pragmatics description: A hyphen joins words to make one meaning, especially describing words before a noun: a man-eating shark, a well-known song. Who acts: hyphen. 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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 (hyphen), 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:12 # text = A hyphen joins words to make one meaning, especially describing words before a noun: a man-eating shark, a well-known song. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hyphen hyphen NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 joins join VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ _ 8 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 especially especially ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 describing describe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 12 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 before before ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ _ 20 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 24 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | present | a hyphen | words | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | a hyphen *not said here* | one meaning | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meaning=Product | | 3 | **describe** | gerund | a hyphen *not said here* | words | | | before a noun | especially *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×2, 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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