--- title: A plan is a map you draw before a journey: a few words or pictures t… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics description: A plan is a map you draw before a journey: a few words or pictures that show where your writing starts, where it goes and how it ends, so you don't get lost halfway. Who acts: plan, you, few words, writing. 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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 (plan, you, few words, writing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:0 # text = A plan is a map you draw before a journey: a few words or pictures that show where your writing starts, where it goes and how it ends, so you don't get lost halfway. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 039-planning-before-writing.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 2 det _ _ 2 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 draw draw VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 before before ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 conj _ _ 17 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 advmod _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 34 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 35 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 38 halfway halfway ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | a plan | a map | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **draw** | present | you | a map *not said here* | | | before a journey | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Theme | | 3 | **show** | present | a few words or pictures | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **start** | present | your writing | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **go** | present | writing | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **end** | present | writing | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **not** **lose** | present · passive · do-support | | you | | | | halfway *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 8 | **write** | | your | | | | | | nom writing «act transitive»: poss=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:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Standard English and dialect: "we was"…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/38-standard-english-and-dialect-we-was-and-we-were/17/) - next →: [Planning before writing, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/)