--- title: Surely you agree?» It gives reasons in order (firstly, secondly) and… — Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries · tree and pragmatics description: Surely you agree?» It gives reasons in order (firstly, secondly) and ends with a question that doesn't need an answer, a rhetorical question, which makes the reader feel they should agree. Who acts: you, exercise, question, rhetorical question. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, exercise, question, rhetorical question), 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:4 # text = Surely you agree?» It gives reasons in order (firstly, secondly) and ends with a question that doesn't need an answer, a rhetorical question, which makes the reader feel they should agree. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Surely surely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 5 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 12 firstly firstly ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 secondly secondly ADV RB _ 7 parataxis _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 14 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 22 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 need need VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl:relcl _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 rhetorical rhetorical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 33 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 agree agree VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 ccomp _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | you | | | | | surely *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **give** *in a quote* | present | exercise | reasons | | order | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | | 3 | **end** *in a quote* | present | exercise *not said here* | | | | | with a question | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with question=Subeventuality | | 4 | **not** **need** *in a quote* | present · do-support | a question | a answer | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot answer=Theme | | 5 | **make** *in a quote* | present | a rhetorical question | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive | the reader | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **agree** *speech: agree* *in a quote* | should | reasons *= reason* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «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:4`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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