Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 3

A report on penguins is sorted by topic, not by time, under headings like "Habitat" and "Diet", in the present tense; a newspaper report tells who, what, where, when and why, in the past tense, with a headline and a quote.

Who acts: topic, newspaper report · What happens: sort, tell · To what, where: report, headings, past tense · 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 (topic, 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	2 report	det
2	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorted	nsubj:pass
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 penguins	case
4	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 report	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sorted	aux:pass
6	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 topic	case
8	topic	topic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorted	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 time	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 time	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 topic	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 headings	punct
14	under	under	ADP	_	15 headings	case
15	headings	heading	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sorted	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 Habitat	case
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Habitat	punct
18	Habitat	habitat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 headings	nmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Habitat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Diet	cc
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Diet	punct
22	Diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Habitat	conj
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Diet	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tense	punct
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 tense	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tense	det
27	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 tense	amod
28	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sorted	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 tells	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 report	det
31	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 report	compound
32	report	report	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tells	nsubj
33	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sorted	parataxis
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 tells	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 what	punct
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 who	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 where	punct
38	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 who	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 when	punct
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 who	conj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 why	cc
42	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	34 who	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 tense	punct
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 tense	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 tense	det
46	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 tense	amod
47	tense	tense	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tells	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 headline	punct
49	with	with	ADP	_	51 headline	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 headline	det
51	headline	headline	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tells	obl
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 quote	cc
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 quote	det
54	quote	quote	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 headline	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sorted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	present · passive	topic and time	a report on penguins		headings like Habitat and Diet		in the present tense goal	vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in tense=Goal
2	tell speech: assert	present	a newspaper report			the past tense		with a headline and a quote	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient

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:3.

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): R2-punct-next ×3, 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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