--- title: Newspapers can favour one side; comparing two reports helps you spot… — Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries · tree and pragmatics description: Newspapers can favour one side; comparing two reports helps you spot it. Who acts: Newspapers, comparing, you. 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/23/) [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/) / 23 # Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries, sentence 23 Newspapers can favour one side; comparing two reports helps you spot it. **Who acts:** Newspapers, comparing, you · **What happens:** favour, compare, help, spot · **To what, where:** one side, two reports, you, report 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 (Newspapers, comparing, you), 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:23 # text = Newspapers can favour one side; comparing two reports helps you spot it. # 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 Newspapers newspaper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 favour favour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 7 comparing compare VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 csubj _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 reports report NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 spot spot VERB VBP VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **favour** | can | Newspapers | one side | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **compare** | gerund | | two reports | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Patient | | 3 | **help** | present | comparing | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 4 | **spot** | present | you *not said here* | report | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | 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:23`. **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. 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