--- title: A newspaper article has a headline in big or capital letters to grab… — Persuasive letters, newspaper articles and diaries · tree and pragmatics description: A newspaper article has a headline in big or capital letters to grab you and sum up the story: «LOCAL GIRL SAVES DUCKS». Who acts: newspaper article, LOCAL GIRL. 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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 (newspaper article, LOCAL GIRL), 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:9 # text = A newspaper article has a headline in big or capital letters to grab you and sum up the story: «LOCAL GIRL SAVES DUCKS». # 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 3 det _ _ 2 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 article article NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 headline headline NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 capital capital ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sum sum VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ _ 22 LOCAL local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 GIRL girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 SAVES save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 25 DUCKS duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a newspaper article | a headline | | big letters | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Patient | | 2 | **grab** | to-infinitive | a newspaper article *not said here* | you | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 3 | **sum up** | infinitive | a newspaper article *not said here* | the story | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **save** *in a quote* | present | LOCAL GIRL | | DUCKS | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent duck=Beneficiary »=Theme | 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:9`. **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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