--- title: Because texts have no voice or face, capitals, emoji and abbreviatio… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics description: Because texts have no voice or face, capitals, emoji and abbreviations do the job of tone, and different people read them differently, so think about who you're texting. Who acts: texts, capitals, different people, you. A sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/3/) [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/) / [Texting, abbreviations and emoji](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/) / 3 # Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 3 Because texts have no voice or face, capitals, emoji and abbreviations do the job of tone, and different people read them differently, so think about who you're texting. **Who acts:** texts, capitals, different people, you, tone · **What happens:** have, do, read, think, text, job · **To what, where:** voice, job, capitals This is a sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» 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 (texts, capitals, different people, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:3 # text = Because texts have no voice or face, capitals, emoji and abbreviations do the job of tone, and different people read them differently, so think about who you're texting. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Because because SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:advcl 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 capitals capital NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 emoji emoji NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 abbreviations abbreviation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 14 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:parataxis 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 job job NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 differently differently ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 29 about about ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 33 obj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 texting text VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | texts | no voice or face | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient | | 2 | **do** | present | capitals and emoji and abbreviations | the job of tone | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | | 3 | **read** | present | different people | capitals *= capital* | | | | differently *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **text** | present · progressive | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **job** | | tone | | | | | | nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent | 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:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:3`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/2/) - next →: [Texting, abbreviations and emoji, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/30-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji/)