--- title: A dash is longer than a hyphen and usually has a space on each side;… — Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens · tree and pragmatics description: A dash is longer than a hyphen and usually has a space on each side; a hyphen is short and has no spaces. Who acts: dash, 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 (dash, 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:8 # text = A dash is longer than a hyphen and usually has a space on each side; a hyphen is short and has no spaces. # 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 dash dash NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hyphen hyphen NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hyphen hyphen NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 spaces space NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present | a dash | | | | | than a hyphen; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | a dash *not said here* | a space | | each side | | usually *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | a hyphen | | | | | short *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | a hyphen *not said here* | no spaces | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient | 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:8`. **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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