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title: Instructions have a title, a list of what you need, numbered steps a… — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics
description: Instructions have a title, a list of what you need, numbered steps and bossy verbs. Who acts: Instructions, you. A sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report, sentence 24

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Instructions have a title, a list of what you need, numbered steps and bossy verbs.

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**Who acts:** Instructions, you · **What happens:** have, need, number, list · **To what, where:** title

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report» 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, you), 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:24
# text = Instructions have a title, a list of what you need, numbered steps and bossy verbs.
# 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	Instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	bossy	bossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	verbs	verb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Instructions | a title and a list of a title and a list of a title and numbered steps and bossy verbs and numbered steps and bossy verbs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **number** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **list** |  |  | a title and a list of a title and a list and numbered steps and bossy verbs and numbered steps and bossy verbs |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:023-reading-non-fiction-recount-instructions-report.lesson:24`.

**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.

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

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