Planning before writing, sentence 12

Every piece of writing has an audience (who reads it) and a purpose (why it is written), and these change the words you choose.

Who acts: piece, audience, these, you · What happens: have, read, write, change, choose · To what, where: audience, piece, words

This is a sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» 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 (piece, audience, these, you), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 writing	case
4	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 audience	det
7	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 reads	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 reads	nsubj
10	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 audience	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 reads	obj
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 reads	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 purpose	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 purpose	det
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 audience	conj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 written	punct
17	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	20 written	advmod
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 written	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 written	aux:pass
20	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 purpose	acl:relcl
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 written	punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 change	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 change	cc
24	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 change	nsubj
25	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 words	det
27	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 change	obj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 choose	nsubj
29	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 words	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	every piece of writing	a audience and a purpose	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Patient
2	read	present	a audience and a purpose	piece	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	write	present · passive		piece	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	change	present	these	the words	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
5	choose	present	you	the words not said here	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme

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:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:12.

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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