--- title: A semicolon is a bridge between two full sentences that belong toget… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens · tree and pragmatics description: A semicolon is a bridge between two full sentences that belong together ("It rained; we stayed in"), and it can also sort a long list whose items already contain commas. Who acts: semicolon, two full 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 full 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:3 # text = A semicolon is a bridge between two full sentences that belong together ("It rained; we stayed in"), and it can also sort a long list whose items already contain commas. # 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 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 between between ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 8 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 rained rain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 18 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 in in ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 19 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 also also ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 sort sort VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 items item NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 34 already already ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 contain contain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a semicolon | a bridge | | | | between two full sentences | tree rules | | 2 | **belong** | present | two full sentences | | | | | together *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 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 | | 5 | **sort** | can | semicolon | a long list | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme | | 6 | **contain** | present | 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:3`. **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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