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title: A report gives facts about a topic, grouped by idea rather than by t… — Reading non-fiction: recount, instructions, report · tree and pragmatics
description: A report gives facts about a topic, grouped by idea rather than by time. Who acts: report. 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 27

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A report gives facts about a topic, grouped by idea rather than by time.

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**Who acts:** report · **What happens:** give, group · **To what, where:** facts

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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 (report), 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:27
# text = A report gives facts about a topic, grouped by idea rather than by time.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	report	report	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	topic	topic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	grouped	group	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	15	cc	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **give** | present | a report | facts |  |  |  | about a topic | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fact=Theme |
| 2 | **group** | participle |  | facts *not said here* |  |  |  | by idea rather time | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:27`.

**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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