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description: Headings and bullet points in non-fiction make facts quick to find and easy to read. Who acts: Headings, facts. A sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Author's choices: why this word, why this way, sentence 21

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Headings and bullet points in non-fiction make facts quick to find and easy to read.

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**Who acts:** Headings, facts · **What happens:** make, find, read · **To what, where:** facts, non-fiction

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Author's choices: why this word, why this way» 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 (Headings, facts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:21
# text = Headings and bullet points in non-fiction make facts quick to find and easy to read.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.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): no change
1	Headings	heading	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	non-fiction	non-fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **make** | present | Headings and bullet points | facts |  | non-fiction |  | quick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fact=Product |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive | facts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **read** | to-infinitive | facts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:021-authors-choices-why-this-word-why-this-way.lesson:21`.

**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.

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

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