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title: One-word commands like "Help!", "Run!" and "Listen!" are complete se… — Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, comma… · tree and pragmatics
description: One-word commands like "Help!", "Run!" and "Listen!" are complete sentences. Who acts: word commands. A sentence of the lesson «Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Kinds of sentences: statements, questions, commands, exclamations, sentence 9

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One-word commands like "Help!", "Run!" and "Listen!" are complete sentences.

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**Who acts:** word commands · **What happens:** help, run, listen, be · **To what, where:** complete sentences

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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 (word commands), 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:9
# text = One-word commands like "Help!", "Run!" and "Listen!" are complete sentences.
# 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
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	nmod	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
12	Run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed form=decl, act=assert, voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **run** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | word commands | complete sentences |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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. **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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