--- title: A plan should be quick: three or four words for each part are enough… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics description: A plan should be quick: three or four words for each part are enough, and small children can plan in pictures, called a storyboard; a beautiful colour-coded plan that eats 30 minutes of a 45-minute test leaves no time to write. Who acts: plan, three words, small children, pictures. 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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, three words, small children, pictures), 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:3 # text = A plan should be quick: three or four words for each part are enough, and small children can plan in pictures, called a storyboard; a beautiful colour-coded plan that eats 30 minutes of a 45-minute test leaves no time to write. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 conj _ _ 10 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 plan plan VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 storyboard storyboard NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 30 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 31 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 coded code VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 amod _ _ 34 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 30 30 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 45 45 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ _ 43 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 45 leaves leave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 46 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 47 det _ _ 47 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 acl _ _ 50 . . 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** | should | a plan | | | | | quick *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | three words for each part | | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **plan** | can | small children | | | pictures | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **call** | participle | pictures *not said here* | a storyboard | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **code** | participle | | | | | | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **eat** | present | a beautiful coded plan | | | | minute | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **leave** | present | a beautiful coded plan | | | | time | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **write** | to-infinitive | a beautiful coded plan *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:039-planning-before-writing.lesson:3`. **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): R7-rel-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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/2/) - next →: [Planning before writing, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/39-planning-before-writing/)