Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 16
Persuasive techniques include reasons in order, strong words, exaggeration and rhetorical questions.
Who acts: Persuasive techniques · What happens: include · To what, where: reasons, order
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 techniques), 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 techniques | amod |
| 2 | techniques | technique | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | nsubj |
| 3 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 include | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 order | case |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reasons | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 words | punct |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reasons | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exaggeration | punct |
| 11 | exaggeration | exaggeration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reasons | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 questions | cc |
| 13 | rhetorical | rhetorical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 questions | amod |
| 14 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exaggeration | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 include | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | Persuasive techniques | reasons and strong words and exaggeration and rhetorical questions | in order goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent reason=Theme in order=Goal |
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:16.
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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