Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 1

Instructions are like a recipe card on the fridge: a title saying what you will make, a list of what you need, then numbered steps that start with bossy verbs ("Wet the brush.

Who acts: Instructions, title, you, numbered steps · What happens: be, say, make, need, number, start · To what, where: fridge, list, brush · 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 (Instructions, title, you, numbered steps), 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	Instructions	instruction	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 card	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 card	cop
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 card	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 card	det
5	recipe	recipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 card	compound
6	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 fridge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fridge	det
9	fridge	fridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 card	nmod
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 saying	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 title	det
12	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saying	nsubj
13	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fridge	acl:relcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 make	obj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 saying	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 list	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 list	det
20	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 make	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 what	case
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 list	nmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 need	nsubj
24	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 what	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 steps	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 numbered	advmod
27	numbered	number	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 steps	amod
28	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 make	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 start	nsubj
30	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 steps	acl:relcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 verbs	case
32	bossy	bossy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 verbs	amod
33	verbs	verb	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 start	obl
34	(	(	PUNCT	_	36 Wet	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	38 brush	punct
36	Wet	wet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 verbs	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 brush	det
38	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 Wet	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 card	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Instructions		the fridge		like a recipe card	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a title	the fridge not said here				tree rules
3	make	future	you	a list				tree rules
4	need	present	you					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	number	participle				then		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	start	present	numbered steps				with bossy verbs	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with verb=Subeventuality
7	wet in a quote	infinitive	numbered steps not said here	the brush				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brush=Patient

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:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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