Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 8
A non-chronological report organises facts by topic, not by time, usually in the present tense with headings.
Who acts: non-chronological report · What happens: organise · To what, where: facts, present tense
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 (non-chronological 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 | 3 report | det |
| 2 | non-chronological | non-chronological | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 report | amod |
| 3 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 organises | nsubj |
| 4 | organises | organise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 organises | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 topic | case |
| 7 | topic | topic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 organises | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 time | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 topic | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 17 tense | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tense | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tense | det |
| 16 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tense | amod |
| 17 | tense | tense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 organises | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 headings | case |
| 19 | headings | heading | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tense | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 organises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | organise | present | a non-chronological report | facts | the present tense with headings | by topic and time | tree rules |
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:8.
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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