--- title: Using a fronted adverbial in every sentence makes writing sound clun… — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics description: Using a fronted adverbial in every sentence makes writing sound clunky; use them for variety. Who acts: Using. A sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» 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/29-fronted-adverbials/22/) [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/) / [Fronted adverbials](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/) / 22 # Fronted adverbials, sentence 22 Using a fronted adverbial in every sentence makes writing sound clunky; use them for variety. **Who acts:** Using · **What happens:** use, front, make, write, sound · **To what, where:** fronted adverbial, sentence, word This is a sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» 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 (Using), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:22 # text = Using a fronted adverbial in every sentence makes writing sound clunky; use them for variety. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 029-fronted-adverbials.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 1 Using use VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 fronted front VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 adverbial adverbial NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 7 det _ _ 7 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 clunky clunky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 variety variety NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | gerund | | a fronted adverbial | | every sentence | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adverbial=Patient | | 2 | **front** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | Using | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **write** | gerund | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sound** | infinitive | | | | | | clunky *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **use** | infinitive | | word | | | | for variety | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Theme for variety=Eventuality | 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:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:22`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Fronted adverbials, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/21/) - next →: [Fronted adverbials, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/29-fronted-adverbials/)