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title: TiPToP is a way to remember when to start a new paragraph: a change… — Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together · tree and pragmatics
description: TiPToP is a way to remember when to start a new paragraph: a change of Time, Place, Topic or Person. Who acts: TiPToP, Time. 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
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# Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together, sentence 6

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TiPToP is a way to remember when to start a new paragraph: a change of Time, Place, Topic or Person.

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**Who acts:** TiPToP, Time · **What happens:** be, remember, start, change · **To what, where:** way, new paragraph

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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 (TiPToP, Time), 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:6
# text = TiPToP is a way to remember when to start a new paragraph: a change of Time, Place, Topic or Person.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	TiPToP	TiPToP	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:ccomp
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Topic	topic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | TiPToP | a way |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **remember** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **start** | to-infinitive |  | a new paragraph  a change of Time and Place and Topic or Person |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragraph=Eventuality |
| 4 | **change** |  | Time and Place and Topic |  |  |  |  |  | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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