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title: A mind map puts the topic in the middle with a branch for each idea;… — Planning before writing · tree and pragmatics
description: A mind map puts the topic in the middle with a branch for each idea; each branch can become a paragraph of a non-fiction text. Who acts: mind map, branch, non-fiction text. A sentence of the lesson «Planning before writing» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Planning before writing, sentence 9

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A mind map puts the topic in the middle with a branch for each idea; each branch can become a paragraph of a non-fiction text.

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**Who acts:** mind map, branch, non-fiction text · **What happens:** put, become, paragraph · **To what, where:** topic, middle, paragraph

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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 (mind map, branch, non-fiction text), 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:9
# text = A mind map puts the topic in the middle with a branch for each idea; each branch can become a paragraph of a non-fiction text.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	topic	topic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	paragraph	paragraph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	non-fiction	non-fiction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | a mind map | the topic |  | the middle |  | with a branch for each idea | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent topic=Theme in middle=Destination |
| 2 | **become** | can | each branch | a paragraph of a non-fiction text |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **paragraph** |  | a non-fiction text |  |  |  |  |  | nom paragraph «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:9`.

**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 ×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/).

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