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A sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [SATs: grammar, punctuation and spellin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/) / 9 # SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 9 A semicolon can join two full sentences that are closely linked: "It was raining; we stayed in." **Who acts:** semicolon, It, we · **What happens:** join, link, rain, stay in · **To what, where:** two full sentences This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» 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 (semicolon, It, we), 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:9 # text = A semicolon can join two full sentences that are closely linked: "It was raining; we stayed in." # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 semicolon semicolon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 closely closely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 linked link VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 raining rain VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 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=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 20 in in ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 22 " " 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 | **join** | can | a semicolon | two full sentences | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient | | 2 | **link** | present · passive | | two full sentences | | | | closely *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **rain** *in a quote* | past · progressive | It | | | | | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **stay in** *in a quote* | past | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:9`. **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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