--- title: A long sentence is not a run-on if it is punctuated properly. — Punctuation that changes meaning · tree and pragmatics description: A long sentence is not a run-on if it is punctuated properly. Who acts: long 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 of every clause. --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Punctuation that changes meaning, sentence 9 A long sentence is not a run-on if it is punctuated properly. **Who acts:** long sentence · **What happens:** not be, punctuate · **To what, where:** run, 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 (long 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:9 # text = A long sentence is not a run-on if it is punctuated properly. # 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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 run run NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 9 on on ADV RB _ 7 compound _ _ 10 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 punctuated punctuate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 advcl _ _ 14 properly properly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a long sentence | a run | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **punctuate** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | sentence | | | | properly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | 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:9`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/8/) - next →: [Punctuation that changes meaning, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/14-punctuation-that-changes-meaning/)