Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 7
Instructions use imperative (bossy) verbs at the start of steps: mix, cut, press, brush.
Who acts: Instructions · What happens: use, mix, cut, press, brush, start · To what, where: imperative bossy verbs, start, steps
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 use | nsubj |
| 2 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | imperative | imperative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 verbs | amod |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 bossy | punct |
| 5 | bossy | bossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 verbs | amod |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 bossy | punct |
| 7 | verbs | verb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 start | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 start | det |
| 10 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 use | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 steps | case |
| 12 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 start | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 mix | punct |
| 14 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 use | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mix | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 press | punct |
| 18 | press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mix | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brush | punct |
| 20 | brush | brush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 mix | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 use | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Instructions | imperative bossy verbs | the start of steps | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verb=Patient | |||
| 2 | mix | infinitive | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | press | infinitive | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | brush | infinitive | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | start | steps | nom start «event 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:7.
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): R7-rel-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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