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title: Parenthesis is extra information added to a sentence; the sentence s… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens · tree and pragmatics
description: Parenthesis is extra information added to a sentence; the sentence still makes sense if you take it out. Who acts: Parenthesis, sentence, you. 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 p
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# Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens, sentence 5

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Parenthesis is extra information added to a sentence; the sentence still makes sense if you take it out.

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**Who acts:** Parenthesis, sentence, you · **What happens:** be, add, make, take out · **To what, where:** extra information, sense, sentence

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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 (Parenthesis, sentence, 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:5
# text = Parenthesis is extra information added to a sentence; the sentence still makes sense if you take it out.
# 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
1	Parenthesis	parenthesis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Parenthesis | extra information |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | extra information *not said here* |  |  |  | to a sentence | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to sentence=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | the sentence | sense |  |  | still |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product |
| 4 | **take out** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | sentence |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:5`.

**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. **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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