Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 10

A newspaper report has a headline, answers the 5 Ws (who, what, where, when, why), is in the past tense and often includes quotes.

Who acts: newspaper report · What happens: have, answer, be, include · To what, where: headline, 5 Ws, past tense, quotes

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 (newspaper report), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 report	det
2	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 report	compound
3	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 headline	det
6	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answers	punct
8	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ws	det
10	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 Ws	nummod
11	Ws	w	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 answers	obj
12	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 who	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 Ws	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 who	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 who	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 where	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 why	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 where	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 why	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 what	acl:relcl
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 why	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tense	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 tense	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 tense	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tense	det
27	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tense	amod
28	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 includes	cc
30	often	often	ADV	_	31 includes	advmod
31	includes	include	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
32	quotes	quote	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 includes	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a newspaper report	a headline			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	present	a newspaper report not said here	the 5 Ws			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent w=Eventuality
3	is	present	a newspaper report not said here		the past tense		tree rules
4	include	present	a newspaper report not said here	quotes		often property	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quote=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:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.lesson:10.

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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