--- title: «Dear Head Teacher, I am writing to ask for a longer lunch break. — Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries · tree and pragmatics description: «Dear Head Teacher, I am writing to ask for a longer lunch break. Who acts: I. A sentence of the lesson «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Persuasive letters, newspaper articles…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/) / 1 # Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 1 «Dear Head Teacher, I am writing to ask for a longer lunch break. **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** write, ask This is a sentence of the lesson «Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries» 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 (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:1 # text = «Dear Head Teacher, I am writing to ask for a longer lunch break. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_ 2 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 Teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 vocative _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obl 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 14 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 break break NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** *in a quote* | present · progressive | I | | | | | Dear Head Teacher *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | for a longer lunch break | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Persuasive letters, newspaper articles…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/0/) - next →: [Persuasive letters, newspaper articles…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/24-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries/)