--- title: A report, sometimes called a non-chronological report, gives facts a… — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics description: A report, sometimes called a non-chronological report, gives facts about a topic grouped by idea, not by time: «Hedgehogs are small mammals covered in spines. Who acts: report, Hedgehogs. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (report, Hedgehogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:12 # text = A report, sometimes called a non-chronological report, gives facts about a topic grouped by idea, not by time: «Hedgehogs are small mammals covered in spines. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 non-chronological non-chronological ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 facts fact NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 about about ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 topic topic NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 grouped group VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 by by ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 27 case _ _ 24 Hedgehogs hedgehog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 parataxis _ _ 28 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **call** | participle | a report *not said here* | a non-chronological report | | | | sometimes *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** | present | a report | facts | | | | about a topic | tree rules | | 3 | **group** | participle | | a topic *not said here* | | | | by idea and time | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Hedgehogs | | | | | « small mammals | tree rules | | 5 | **cover** *in a quote* | participle | | small mammals *not said here* | | | | in spines | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in spine=Theme | 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](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:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:12`. **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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