--- title: A pair of commas can put extra words to one side and change who is s… — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics description: A pair of commas can put extra words to one side and change who is speaking: "The teacher, said the pupil, is a fool." Who acts: pair, pupil, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Punctuation that changes meaning» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/10/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Punctuation that changes meaning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/) / 10 # Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 10 A pair of commas can put extra words to one side and change who is speaking: "The teacher, said the pupil, is a fool." **Who acts:** pair, pupil, teacher · **What happens:** put, change, speak, say, be · **To what, where:** extra words, fool · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Punctuation that changes meaning» of the language 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 (pair, pupil, teacher), 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:10 # text = A pair of commas can put extra words to one side and change who is speaking: "The teacher, said the pupil, is a fool." # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:acl:relcl 17 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 19 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 pupil pupil NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | can | a pair of commas | extra words | | | | to one side | tree rules | | 2 | **change** | infinitive | a pair of commas *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · progressive | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the pupil | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the teacher | a fool | | | | | 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: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): 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: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/9/) - next →: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/)