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title: In speech, raising your voice at the end (intonation) can turn a sta… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics
description: In speech, raising your voice at the end (intonation) can turn a statement into a question: "You're coming tomorrow?" Who acts: raising, You. A sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 11

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In speech, raising your voice at the end (intonation) can turn a statement into a question: "You're coming tomorrow?"

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**Who acts:** raising, You · **What happens:** raise, turn, come · **To what, where:** voice, end, statement, question

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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 (raising, You), 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:11
# text = In speech, raising your voice at the end (intonation) can turn a statement into a question: "You're coming tomorrow?"
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	intonation	intonation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	statement	statement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl	_	_
25	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	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 | **raise** | gerund |  | your voice |  |  | at the end |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme at end=Destination |
| 2 | **turn** | can | raising | a statement |  |  |  | into a question; in speech | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent statement=Patient in speech=Topic into question=Recipient |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | You | a question *not said here* |  |  | tomorrow |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location question=Theme |

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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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**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: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): R5-strong ×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/).

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