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title: A diary is personal and chatty: «Dear Diary, today was the WORST. — Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries · tree and pragmatics
description: A diary is personal and chatty: «Dear Diary, today was the WORST. Who acts: diary, today. 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.
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# Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 12

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A diary is personal and chatty: «Dear Diary, today was the WORST.

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**Who acts:** diary, today · **What happens:** be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (diary, today), 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:12
# text = A diary is personal and chatty: «Dear Diary, today was the WORST.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	chatty	chatty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
9	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Diary	Diary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	vocative	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	WORST	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	parataxis	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a diary |  |  |  |  | personal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | a diary *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | today |  |  |  |  | Dear Diary *vocative*; bad *property* | tree rules |

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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:024-persuasive-letters-newspaper-articles-and-diaries.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): 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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