--- title: Stories often use a story mountain: the opening at the bottom, the b… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics description: Stories often use a story mountain: the opening at the bottom, the build-up climbing, the problem at the top, then the resolution and the ending on the way down; information texts suit a mind map, with the topic in the middle and a branch for each paragraph. Who acts: Stories, information texts. 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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 (Stories, information texts), 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:2 # text = Stories often use a story mountain: the opening at the bottom, the build-up climbing, the problem at the top, then the resolution and the ending on the way down; information texts suit a mind map, with the topic in the middle and a branch for each paragraph. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 use use VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:det 9 opening open NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 build build NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 17 up up NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 climbing climbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:parataxis 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 problem problem NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:parataxis 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 resolution resolution NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 32 on on ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod 35 down down ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 texts text NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 suit suit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 map map NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 topic topic NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 53 for for ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 55 det _ _ 55 paragraph paragraph NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:nmod 56 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **use** | present | Stories | a story mountain | | | | with the topic in the middle and a branch for each paragraph; often *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | | 2 | **suit** | present | information texts | a mind map | | | | | tree rules | 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: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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Planning before writing, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/1/) - next →: [Planning before writing, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/)