--- title: A run-on sentence joins two or more complete sentences with no prope… — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics description: A run-on sentence joins two or more complete sentences with no proper punctuation; fix it with full stops or joining words. Who acts: run sentence. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Punctuation that changes meaning](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/) / 8 # Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 8 A run-on sentence joins two or more complete sentences with no proper punctuation; fix it with full stops or joining words. **Who acts:** run sentence · **What happens:** join, fix · **To what, where:** two complete sentences, sentence 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 (run sentence), 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:8 # text = A run-on sentence joins two or more complete sentences with no proper punctuation; fix it with full stops or joining words. # 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 ×4 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:det 2 run run NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 2 compound _ _ 5 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:compound 6 joins join VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 10 complete complete ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 14 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 punctuation punctuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 fix fix VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 stops stop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 joining join VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 amod _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join** | present | a run sentence | two complete sentences | | | | with no proper punctuation | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sentence=Patient with punctuation=Co-Patient | | 2 | **fix** | infinitive | | sentence | | | | with full stops or joining words | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stop=Co-Patient | | 3 | **join** | gerund | | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | 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:8`. **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 ×4. **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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/7/) - next →: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/)