--- title: "A panda eats shoots and leaves" means it eats bamboo shoots and lea… — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics description: "A panda eats shoots and leaves" means it eats bamboo shoots and leaves; add commas, "eats, shoots and leaves", and the panda has lunch, fires a gun and walks out; that joke is the title of a famous British book about punctuation. Who acts: panda, commas, joke. 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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 (panda, commas, joke), 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:2 # text = "A panda eats shoots and leaves" means it eats bamboo shoots and leaves; add commas, "eats, shoots and leaves", and the panda has lunch, fires a gun and walks out; that joke is the title of a famous British book about punctuation. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 panda panda NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj 5 shoots shoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 bamboo bamboo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 shoots shoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 17 add add VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 commas comma NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 21 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 shoots shoot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 panda panda NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 32 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 fires fire VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:conj 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 out out ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 41 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 42 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 46 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 48 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 49 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 51 about about ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 punctuation punctuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | a panda | shoots and leaves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoot=Patient | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **eat** | present | panda | bamboo shoots and leaves | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoot=Patient | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | commas | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | present | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **have** | present | the panda | lunch | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Patient | | 7 | **fire** | present | the panda *not said here* | a gun | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme | | 8 | **walk out** | present | the panda *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **is a** | present | that joke | the title | | | | of a famous British book about punctuation | 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/1/) - next →: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/)