--- title: If one side of a semicolon could not stand alone as a sentence, the… — SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper · tree and pragmatics description: If one side of a semicolon could not stand alone as a sentence, the semicolon is wrong there. Who acts: one side, semicolon. 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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 (one side, semicolon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:10 # text = If one side of a semicolon could not stand alone as a sentence, the semicolon is wrong there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 2 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 semicolon semicolon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 10 alone alone ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 11 as as ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obl 14 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 semicolon semicolon NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 19 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | one side of a semicolon | | | | | as a sentence; alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the semicolon | | | there | | wrong *property* | tree rules | 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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:10`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [SATs: grammar, punctuation and spellin…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/9/) - next →: [SATs: grammar, punctuation and spellin…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/)