--- title: A newspaper report has a headline, answers the 5 Ws (who, what, wher… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics description: A newspaper report has a headline, answers the 5 Ws (who, what, where, when, why), is in the past tense and often includes quotes. Who acts: newspaper report. 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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 (newspaper report), 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:10 # text = A newspaper report has a headline, answers the 5 Ws (who, what, where, when, why), is in the past tense and often includes quotes. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 newspaper newspaper NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 report report NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 headline headline NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 answers answer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 Ws w NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 13 nsubj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 17 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 21 advmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 acl:relcl _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 tense tense NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 often often ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 includes include VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 quotes quote NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a newspaper report | a headline | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headline=Patient | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | present | a newspaper report *not said here* | the 5 Ws | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent w=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | a newspaper report *not said here* | | | the past tense | | | tree rules | | 4 | **include** | present | a newspaper report *not said here* | quotes | | | | often *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quote=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:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.lesson:10`. **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. 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