--- title: Every piece of writing has an audience (who reads it) and a purpose… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics description: Every piece of writing has an audience (who reads it) and a purpose (why it is written), and these change the words you choose. Who acts: piece, audience, these, you. 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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 (piece, audience, these, you), 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:12 # text = Every piece of writing has an audience (who reads it) and a purpose (why it is written), and these change the words you choose. # 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 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 audience audience NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 9 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 reads read VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 17 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj _ _ 25 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 . . 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 | **have** | present | every piece of writing | a audience and a purpose | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent audience=Patient | | 2 | **read** | present | a audience and a purpose | piece | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 3 | **write** | present · passive | | piece | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **change** | present | these | the words | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 5 | **choose** | present | you | the words *not said here* | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:12`. **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: [Planning before writing, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/11/) - next →: [Planning before writing, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/)