--- title: A command can be tiny: "Help!", "Run!" and "Stop!" are full sentence… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics description: A command can be tiny: "Help!", "Run!" and "Stop!" are full sentences, because the "you" is understood; Mum's "Shoes on. Who acts: command. A sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/1/) [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/) / [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/) / 1 # Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 1 A command can be tiny: "Help!", "Run!" and "Stop!" are full sentences, because the "you" is understood; Mum's "Shoes on. **Who acts:** command · **What happens:** be, stop, understand · **To what, where:** Run full sentences, you This is a sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» 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 (command), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:1 # text = A command can be tiny: "Help!", "Run!" and "Stop!" are full sentences, because the "you" is understood; Mum's "Shoes on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 007-kinds-of-sentences.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 command command NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 Run Run PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 14 ! ! PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ! ! PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 understood understand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 33 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 Shoes shoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 37 on on ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | can | a command | | | | | tiny *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is a** | present | | Run full sentences | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **understand** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | 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:007-kinds-of-sentences.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, 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: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/0/) - next →: [Kinds of sentences: statements, questi…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/)