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title: Every plan starts with two questions: who will read this, and why am… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics
description: Every plan starts with two questions: who will read this, and why am I writing it? Who acts: plan, I. A sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Planning before writing, sentence 4

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Every plan starts with two questions: who will read this, and why am I writing it?

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**Who acts:** plan, I · **What happens:** start, read, write · **To what, where:** this, plan

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» 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 (plan, I), 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:4
# text = Every plan starts with two questions: who will read this, and why am I writing it?
# 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	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: yes/no question
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | every plan |  |  |  |  | with two questions | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with question=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **read** | future |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic |
| 3 | **write** | present · progressive | I | plan |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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/).

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