--- title: Cohesion means the parts of a text are linked so that it reads as on… — Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together · tree and pragmatics description: Cohesion means the parts of a text are linked so that it reads as one whole. Who acts: Cohesion. 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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Paragraphs and cohesion: holding a text together, sentence 9 Cohesion means the parts of a text are linked so that it reads as one whole. **Who acts:** Cohesion · **What happens:** mean, link, read · **To what, where:** parts, one whole · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Cohesion), 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:9 # text = Cohesion means the parts of a text are linked so that it reads as one whole. # 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 ×2 1 Cohesion cohesion NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 linked link VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ _ 10 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 13 mark _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 14 as as ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obl 16 whole whole NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 17 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Cohesion | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **link** | present · passive | | the parts of a text | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **read** | present | Cohesion | one whole | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×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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