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title: Persuasive techniques include reasons in order, strong words, exagge… — Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries · tree and pragmatics
description: Persuasive techniques include reasons in order, strong words, exaggeration and rhetorical questions. Who acts: Persuasive techniques. 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 pragmati
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# Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 16

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Persuasive techniques include reasons in order, strong words, exaggeration and rhetorical questions.

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**Who acts:** Persuasive techniques · **What happens:** include · **To what, where:** reasons, order

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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 (Persuasive techniques), 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:16
# text = Persuasive techniques include reasons in order, strong words, exaggeration and rhetorical questions.
# 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	Persuasive	persuasive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	techniques	technique	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	exaggeration	exaggeration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	rhetorical	rhetorical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **include** | present | Persuasive techniques | reasons and strong words and exaggeration and rhetorical questions |  |  |  | in order *goal* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent reason=Theme in order=Goal |

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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:16`.

**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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