--- title: In texts many people drop question marks; without one a message like… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics description: In texts many people drop question marks; without one a message like "can u come over" can look flat or bossy. Who acts: many people, u, message. A sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its depe --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 17 In texts many people drop question marks; without one a message like "can u come over" can look flat or bossy. **Who acts:** many people, u, message · **What happens:** drop, come over, look · **To what, where:** question marks, texts, message 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 (many people, u, message), 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:17 # text = In texts many people drop question marks; without one a message like "can u come over" can look flat or bossy. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 3 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 drop drop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 marks mark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 without without ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 obl _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 13 like like ADP IN _ 17 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 u you PRON PRP Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 18 over over ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 22 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 bossy bossy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | many people | question marks | | texts | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mark=Theme in text=Destination | | 2 | **come over** *in a quote* | can | u | a message *not said here* | | | | over *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location message=Theme | | 3 | **look** | can | a message | | | | | without one; flat *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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:17`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/16/) - next →: [Tenses: past, present and future, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/7-kinds-of-sentences/)