--- title: The famous one: "Let's eat Grandma!" makes Grandma the dinner, while… — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics description: The famous one: "Let's eat Grandma!" makes Grandma the dinner, while "Let's eat, Grandma!" invites her to the table; the comma before a name you're talking to saves lives. Who acts: 's, famous one, you. 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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 ('s, famous one, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:014-punctuation-that-changes-meaning.lesson:1 # text = The famous one: "Let's eat Grandma!" makes Grandma the dinner, while "Let's eat, Grandma!" invites her to the table; the comma before a name you're talking to saves lives. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 014-punctuation-that-changes-meaning.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:acl:relcl 7 's us PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 12 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 13 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 20 's us PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 vocative _ _ 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 26 invites invite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 comma comma NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 34 before before ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 saves save NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 compound _ _ 42 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | Grandma | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | the famous one | the dinner | Grandma | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset grandma=Beneficiary dinner=Product | | 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the famous one *not said here* | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | Grandma *vocative* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **invite** | present | | | Grandma | | | to the table | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 7 | **talk** | present · progressive | you | a name *not said here* | | | | to saves lives | 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:language:014-punctuation-that-changes-meaning.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/0/) - next →: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/)