--- title: Repeating a key word, or a synonym for it, helps link paragraphs abo… — Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together · tree and pragmatics description: Repeating a key word, or a synonym for it, helps link paragraphs about the same topic. Who acts: Repeating. A sentence of the lesson «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» 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/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/13/) [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/) / [Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a tex…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/37-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together/) / 13 # Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together, sentence 13 Repeating a key word, or a synonym for it, helps link paragraphs about the same topic. **Who acts:** Repeating · **What happens:** repeat, help, link · **To what, where:** key word, paragraphs This is a sentence of the lesson «Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together» 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 (Repeating), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.lesson:13 # text = Repeating a key word, or a synonym for it, helps link paragraphs about the same topic. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Repeating repeat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 synonym synonym NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 link link VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 14 paragraphs paragraph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 topic topic NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 19 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **repeat** | gerund | | a key word or a synonym for synonym | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | | 2 | **help** | present | Repeating | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **link** | infinitive | Repeating *not said here* | paragraphs | | | | about the same topic | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragraph=Patient | 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:037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.lesson:13`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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