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title: A polite letter ending «Yours sincerely» that suggests a sufficient… — Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: A polite letter ending «Yours sincerely» that suggests a sufficient number of chairs uses three list words at once, so writing a short letter is great practice for spelling and style together. Who acts: polite letter, writing. A sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, b
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# Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 18

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A polite letter ending «Yours sincerely» that suggests a sufficient number of chairs uses three list words at once, so writing a short letter is great practice for spelling and style together.

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**Who acts:** polite letter, writing · **What happens:** end, suggest, use, write, be · **To what, where:** Yours, sufficient number, three list words, short letter, great practice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea)» 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 (polite letter, writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson:18
# text = A polite letter ending «Yours sincerely» that suggests a sufficient number of chairs uses three list words at once, so writing a short letter is great practice for spelling and style together.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Yours	your	PRON	PRP	Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	sincerely	sincerely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	suggests	suggest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
24	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	csubj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advcl
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=32:cc
34	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	together	together	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | gerund | a polite letter *not said here* | Yours |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | present | a polite letter | a sufficient number of chairs |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent number=Topic |
| 3 | **use** | present | a polite letter | three list words |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 4 | **write** | gerund |  | a short letter |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | writing | great practice |  |  |  | for spelling and style | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson:18`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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