Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 0

Every piece of writing has a job, and the job decides its shape: instructions tell you how, reports and explanations tell you what and why, and persuasive writing tries to change your mind.

Who acts: piece, job, instructions, reports, persuasive writing, your · What happens: have, decide, tell, try, change, mind · To what, where: job, shape, you, mind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» 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, job, instructions, reports), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 job	det
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 decides	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 decides	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 job	det
11	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 decides	nsubj
12	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 shape	nmod:poss
14	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 decides	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
16	instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tell	nsubj
17	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 tell	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reports	punct
21	reports	report	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 tell	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 explanations	cc
23	explanations	explanation	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 reports	conj
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 tell	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 why	cc
28	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	26 what	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tries	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 tries	cc
31	persuasive	persuasive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 writing	amod
32	writing	writing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tries	nsubj
33	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tell	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 change	mark
35	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 tries	xcomp
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mind	nmod:poss
37	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 change	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	present	every piece of writing	a job		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Patient
2	decide	present	the job	job's shape		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent shape=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	present	instructions		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient how=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	present	reports and explanations		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic
5	try	present	persuasive writing			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	change not said to happen	to-infinitive	persuasive writing not said here	your mind		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
7	mind		your			nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.lesson:0.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1. 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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