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title: "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" is the title of a famous British book abou… — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics
description: "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" is the title of a famous British book about punctuation; shoots are young plant stems. Who acts: Eats, shoots. 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 cl
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# Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 7

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"Eats, Shoots and Leaves" is the title of a famous British book about punctuation; shoots are young plant stems.

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**Who acts:** Eats, shoots · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** title, young plant stems

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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 (Eats, shoots), 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:7
# text = "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" is the title of a famous British book about punctuation; shoots are young plant stems.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Eats	eat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	Leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	punctuation	punctuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	shoots	shoot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Eats and Shoots and Leaves | the title |  |  |  | of a famous British book about punctuation | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | shoots | young plant stems |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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, R7-rel-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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