--- title: A colon is a drum roll after a complete sentence: something is comin… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens · tree and pragmatics description: A colon is a drum roll after a complete sentence: something is coming, a list or an explanation ("You need three things: pens, paper and glue"). Who acts: colon, something, You. 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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 (colon, something, You), 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:2 # text = A colon is a drum roll after a complete sentence: something is coming, a list or an explanation ("You need three things: pens, paper and glue"). # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 colon colon NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 roll roll NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 explanation explanation NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 23 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 28 pens pen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:appos 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 24 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a colon | a drum roll and a list or a explanation | | | after a complete sentence | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | present · progressive | something | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **need** *in a quote* | present | You | three things | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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:2`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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