--- title: A colon (:) introduces something; with "Woman: without her, man is n… — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics description: A colon (:) introduces something; with "Woman: without her, man is nothing" the same words as "Woman without her man is nothing" mean the opposite. Who acts: colon, man, Woman, same words. A sentence of the lesson «Punctuation that changes meaning» of the language course of Mova's primary school wit --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 11 A colon (:) introduces something; with "Woman: without her, man is nothing" the same words as "Woman without her man is nothing" mean the opposite. **Who acts:** colon, man, Woman, same words · **What happens:** introduce, be, mean · **To what, where:** something, nothing, opposite · **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 (colon, man, Woman, same words), 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:11 # text = A colon (:) introduces something; with "Woman: without her, man is nothing" the same words as "Woman without her man is nothing" mean the opposite. # 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 colon colon NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 (: (: SYM NFP _ 2 discourse _ _ 4 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 2 punct _ _ 5 introduces introduce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 without without ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 5 conj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 25 without without ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 31 nsubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **introduce** | present | a colon | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | man | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Woman without Woman's man | nothing | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | infinitive | the same words | the opposite | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opposite=Topic | 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:11`. **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 ×2. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/10/) - next →: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/)