Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 15
Persuasive writing tries to make the reader agree or do something.
Who acts: Persuasive writing, reader · What happens: try, make, agree, do · To what, where: reader, something
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 (Persuasive writing, reader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Persuasive | persuasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 writing | amod |
| 2 | writing | writing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tries | nsubj |
| 3 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tries | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reader | det |
| 7 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | xcomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 agree | conj |
| 11 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tries | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | Persuasive writing | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Persuasive writing not said here | the reader | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree not said to happen | infinitive | the reader not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | the reader not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality |
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, 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:english:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:15.
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): no change. 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.
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