--- title: Instructions are like a recipe card on the fridge: a title saying wh… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics description: Instructions are like a recipe card on the fridge: a title saying what you will make, a list of what you need, then numbered steps that start with bossy verbs ("Wet the brush. Who acts: Instructions, title, you, numbered steps. 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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 (Instructions, title, you, numbered steps), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.lesson:1 # text = Instructions are like a recipe card on the fridge: a title saying what you will make, a list of what you need, then numbered steps that start with bossy verbs ("Wet the brush. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Instructions instruction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 recipe recipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 17 obj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 ccomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nmod _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 27 numbered number VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 30 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 acl:relcl _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 bossy bossy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 verbs verb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 36 Wet wet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 brush brush NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Instructions | | | the fridge | | like a recipe card | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a title | the fridge *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | future | you | a list | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **need** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **number** | participle | | | | | then | | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **start** | present | numbered steps | | | | | with bossy verbs | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with verb=Subeventuality | | 7 | **wet** *in a quote* | infinitive | numbered steps *not said here* | the brush | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brush=Patient | 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:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.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): R6-punct-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: [Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/0/) - next →: [Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/44-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade/)