--- title: A comma can save Grandma: "Let's eat, Grandma" talks to Grandma; "Le… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: A comma can save Grandma: "Let's eat, Grandma" talks to Grandma; "Let's eat Grandma" sounds like she is dinner. Who acts: comma, 's. A sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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/40-the-big-language-quiz/11/) [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/) / [The big language quiz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/) / 11 # The big language quiz, sentence 11 A comma can save Grandma: "Let's eat, Grandma" talks to Grandma; "Let's eat Grandma" sounds like she is dinner. **Who acts:** comma, 's · **What happens:** save, let, eat, talk, sound, be · **To what, where:** Grandma, 's, dinner · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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, 's), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:11 # text = A comma can save Grandma: "Let's eat, Grandma" talks to Grandma; "Let's eat Grandma" sounds like she is dinner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 040-the-big-language-quiz.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, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 comma comma NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 save save VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj 9 's us PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 Grandma grandma NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 vocative _ _ 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 talks talk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 24 nsubj _ _ 20 's us PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 Grandma Grandma PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 25 like like SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obl 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **save** | can | a comma | Grandma | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Theme | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | Grandma *vocative* | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **talk** | present | | | Grandma | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | 's | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | 's *not said here* | Grandma | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Patient | | 7 | **sound** | present | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **is a** | present | comma | dinner | | | | | tree rules | 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:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:11`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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: [The big language quiz, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/10/) - next →: [The big language quiz, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/)