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title: In formal writing one exclamation mark is enough, and only when it's… — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics
description: In formal writing one exclamation mark is enough, and only when it's really needed. A sentence of the lesson «Punctuation that changes meaning» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 13

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In formal writing one exclamation mark is enough, and only when it's really needed.

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**What happens:** be, need · **To what, where:** study, one exclamation mark

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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: 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:13
# text = In formal writing one exclamation mark is enough, and only when it's really needed.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod
3	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	exclamation	exclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	really	really	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **need** | present · passive |  | study |  | one exclamation mark |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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:13`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/).

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