--- title: Editing means improving the writing (a stronger word, a clearer orde… — Editing and redrafting · tree and pragmatics description: Editing means improving the writing (a stronger word, a clearer order, a missing sentence), while proofreading means hunting the small slips: spelling, punctuation and the tense that wandered from "went" to "go". Who acts: Editing, proofreading, tense. 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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 (Editing, proofreading, tense), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:1 # text = Editing means improving the writing (a stronger word, a clearer order, a missing sentence), while proofreading means hunting the small slips: spelling, punctuation and the tense that wandered from "went" to "go". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 043-editing-and-redrafting.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Editing editing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 improving improve VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 xcomp _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 amod _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 clearer clearer ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 13 amod _ _ 13 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 missing missing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 proofreading proofread NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 23 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 slips slip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 28 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 punctuation punctuation NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:appos 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 tense tense NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 35 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:acl:relcl 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 obl _ _ 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 41 " " PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Editing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **improve** *not said to happen* | gerund | Editing *not said here* | the writing | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent writing=Patient | | 3 | **mean** | present | proofreading | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **hunt** *not said to happen* | gerund | proofreading *not said here* | the small slips | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slip=Theme | | 5 | **wander** | past | the tense | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Editing and redrafting, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/0/) - next →: [Editing and redrafting, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/)