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title: A comma goes before or after the name of a person you are talking to… — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics
description: A comma goes before or after the name of a person you are talking to: "Let's eat, Grandma!" Who acts: comma, you, 's. 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 6

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A comma goes before or after the name of a person you are talking to: "Let's eat, Grandma!"

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**Who acts:** comma, you, 's · **What happens:** go, talk, let, eat, name · **To what, where:** person, 's · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (comma, you, 's), 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:6
# text = A comma goes before or after the name of a person you are talking to: "Let's eat, Grandma!"
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	comma	comma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	's	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	Grandma	grandma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	vocative	_	_
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | a comma |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **talk** | present · progressive | you | a person *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent person=Patient |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | 's |  |  |  | Grandma *vocative* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **name** |  |  | a person |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:6`.

**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. **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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