Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 13

I forgot my PE kit and Mr Hall made me wear spare shorts that were massive.» It uses «I», feelings, and contractions like «I'm» and «can't» that sound like talking.

Who acts: I, Mr, me, spare shorts, kit, that · What happens: forget, make, wear, be, use, » · To what, where: PE kit, me, spare shorts, first paragraph · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» of the english 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 (I, Mr, me, spare shorts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

narrate

voice

narrator

polarity

pos

teacher

kept the draft

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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