Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 4

Persuasion uses reasons, evidence and feelings, with a polite voice: "Dear Council, the park is boss, don't close it or else!" sounds like a threat from a Liverpool lad ("boss" means great), while "Over 200 children play here every week" gives the council something to think about.

Who acts: Persuasion, park, Dear Council, boss, 200 children · What happens: use, be, not close, sound, mean, play · To what, where: reasons, boss, park, something, council · 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 (Persuasion, park, Dear Council, boss), 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	Persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	nsubj
2	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 uses	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 evidence	punct
5	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reasons	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 feelings	cc
7	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 evidence	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 voice	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 voice	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 voice	det
11	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 voice	amod
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 uses	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Council	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Council	punct
15	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Council	amod
16	Council	Council	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sounds	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boss	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 park	det
19	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 boss	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 boss	cop
21	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Council	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 close	aux
24	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 close	advmod
25	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Council	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 close	obj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 else	cc
28	else	else	ADV	_	25 close	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Council	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 Council	punct
31	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	conj
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 threat	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 threat	det
34	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sounds	obl
35	from	from	ADP	_	38 lad	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 lad	det
37	Liverpool	Liverpool	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 lad	compound
38	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 threat	nmod
39	(	(	PUNCT	_	43 means	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 boss	punct
41	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 means	nsubj
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 boss	punct
43	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	parataxis
44	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 means	xcomp
45	)	)	PUNCT	_	43 means	punct
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 gives	punct
47	while	while	SCONJ	_	57 gives	mark
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 play	punct
49	Over	over	ADV	_	50 200	advmod
50	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	51 children	nummod
51	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 play	nsubj
52	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 gives	advcl
53	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 play	advmod
54	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	55 week	det
55	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 play	obl:unmarked
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	52 play	punct
57	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 uses	advcl
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 council	det
59	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 gives	iobj
60	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	57 gives	obj
61	to	to	PART	_	62 think	mark
62	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 something	acl
63	about	about	ADP	_	62 think	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 uses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	Persuasion	reasons and evidence and feelings				with a polite voice	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	is a in a quote	present	the park	boss					tree rules
3	not close in a quote	infinitive · do-support		park					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	sound	present	Dear Council					like a threat from a Liverpool lad	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	mean	present	boss					great property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	play in a quote	present	200 children			here	week		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	give	present	Persuasion not said here	something	the council				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent council=Recipient something=Theme
8	think about speech: other	to-infinitive	Persuasion not said here	something not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.

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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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