Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 14
A balanced argument presents points for and against, then gives a conclusion.
Who acts: balanced argument · What happens: present, give · To what, where: points, conclusion
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 (balanced argument), 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 argument | det |
| 2 | balanced | balanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 argument | amod |
| 3 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presents | nsubj |
| 4 | presents | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 presents | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 against | case |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gives | cc |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 points | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gives | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 gives | advmod |
| 11 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 presents | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 conclusion | det |
| 13 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gives | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presents | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | present | a balanced argument | points | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | present | a balanced argument not said here | a conclusion | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conclusion=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:14.
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 ×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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