--- title: In texting, a full stop after a short word can look cold or annoyed,… — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics description: In texting, a full stop after a short word can look cold or annoyed, especially to younger people; one study found texts ending with a full stop seemed less friendly. Who acts: full stop, one study, texts. 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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 (full stop, one study, texts), 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:12 # text = In texting, a full stop after a short word can look cold or annoyed, especially to younger people; one study found texts ending with a full stop seemed less friendly. # 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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 texting texting NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 13 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 annoyed annoyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 especially especially ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 younger young ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 amod _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 25 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 26 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 acl _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 stop stop NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 32 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 33 advmod _ _ 33 friendly friendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - hedged: yes - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | can | a full stop after a short word | | | texting | | to younger people; cold *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to people=Experiencer | | 2 | **find** | past | one study | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **end** | gerund | texts *not said here* | | | | | with a full stop | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with stop=Subeventuality | | 4 | **seem** | past | texts | | | | | friendly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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:language:014-punctuation-that-changes-meaning.lesson:12`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/11/) - next →: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/)