Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 6
Instructions have a goal, a list of things needed, and numbered steps in order.
Who acts: Instructions · What happens: have, need, number, list · To what, where: goal, things
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), 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 | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 goal | det |
| 4 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 list | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 list | det |
| 7 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goal | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 things | case |
| 9 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 list | nmod |
| 10 | needed | need | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 things | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 steps | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 steps | cc |
| 13 | numbered | number | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 steps | amod |
| 14 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 goal | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 order | case |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 steps | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Instructions | a goal and a list of things and numbered steps in order | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Patient | ||||
| 2 | need | participle | things not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | number | participle | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | list | things | nom list «communication transitive»: of=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:6.
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): no change. 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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