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title: An ellipsis is exactly three dots; it shows suspense, a trailing-off… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens · tree and pragmatics
description: An ellipsis is exactly three dots; it shows suspense, a trailing-off voice, or missing words. Who acts: ellipsis. A sentence of the lesson «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 15

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An ellipsis is exactly three dots; it shows suspense, a trailing-off voice, or missing words.

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**Who acts:** ellipsis · **What happens:** be, show · **To what, where:** three dots, suspense

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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 (ellipsis), 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:15
# text = An ellipsis is exactly three dots; it shows suspense, a trailing-off voice, or missing words.
# 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 ×1
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ellipsis	ellipsis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	dots	dot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
10	suspense	suspense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	trailing	trailing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	missing	missing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a ellipsis | three dots |  |  |  | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | ellipsis | suspense and a off voice or missing words |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent suspense=Recipient |

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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.

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**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:15`.

**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 ×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/).

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