--- title: A long paragraph is not wrong, but a paragraph that mixes several id… — Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together · tree and pragmatics description: A long paragraph is not wrong, but a paragraph that mixes several ideas is hard to follow. Who acts: long paragraph, paragraph. 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 ev --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together, sentence 15 A long paragraph is not wrong, but a paragraph that mixes several ideas is hard to follow. **Who acts:** long paragraph, paragraph · **What happens:** not be, mix, be, follow · **To what, where:** several ideas 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 (long paragraph, paragraph), 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:15 # text = A long paragraph is not wrong, but a paragraph that mixes several ideas is hard to follow. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 paragraph paragraph NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 paragraph paragraph NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 mixes mix VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ideas idea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | present | a long paragraph | | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **mix** | present | a paragraph | several ideas | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | a paragraph | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **follow** | to-infinitive | a paragraph *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:037-paragraphs-and-cohesion-holding-a-text-together.lesson:15`. **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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