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title: A main clause makes sense on its own; a subordinate clause, like "be… — Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that… · tree and pragmatics
description: A main clause makes sense on its own; a subordinate clause, like "because I was tired", needs a main clause to make full sense. Who acts: main clause, conjunction, subordinate clause. A sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» of the language 
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# Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together, sentence 7

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A main clause makes sense on its own; a subordinate clause, like "because I was tired", needs a main clause to make full sense.

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**Who acts:** main clause, conjunction, subordinate clause · **What happens:** make, be, need · **To what, where:** sense, own, main clause, full sense

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Prepositions and conjunctions: little words that hold sentences together» 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 (main clause, conjunction, subordinate clause), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.lesson:7
# text = A main clause makes sense on its own; a subordinate clause, like "because I was tired", needs a main clause to make full sense.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 006-prepositions-and-conjunctions.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	clause	clause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	subordinate	subordinate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	clause	clause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	appos	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	clause	clause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | a main clause | sense |  | clause's own |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | a conjunction *= conjunction* |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **need** | present | a subordinate clause | a main clause |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | a subordinate clause *not said here* | full sense |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sense=Product |

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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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**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): no change. **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.

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