--- title: Cohesion is the glue that makes the sentences and paragraphs hang to… — Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together · tree and pragmatics description: Cohesion is the glue that makes the sentences and paragraphs hang together: pronouns (Max ... he), linking words (because, however), time and place openers (Later that day, Meanwhile, Outside) and repeated key words all hold the reader's hand. Who acts: Cohesion, glue, sentences, words. 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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 (Cohesion, glue, sentences, words), 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:2 # text = Cohesion is the glue that makes the sentences and paragraphs hang together: pronouns (Max ... he), linking words (because, however), time and place openers (Later that day, Meanwhile, Outside) and repeated key words all hold the reader's hand. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Cohesion cohesion NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 paragraphs paragraph NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 11 hang hang VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 12 together together ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 pronouns pronoun NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Max Max PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 17 ... ... PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 conj _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 linking link VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 22 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 appos _ _ 23 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 24 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 32 case _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 however however ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 29 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 openers opener NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 appos _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 34 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 Outside outside ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 repeated repeat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 conj _ _ 44 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 47 advmod _ _ 47 hold hold VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 ccomp _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ _ 50 's 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Cohesion | the glue | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | the glue | the sentences and paragraphs | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hang together** | infinitive | the sentences and paragraphs *not said here* | | | | | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **link** | gerund | words *not said here* | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **repeat** | participle | Cohesion *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **hold** | present | key words | the reader's hand | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:2`. **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): R6-punct-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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