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title: A balanced argument presents points for and against, then gives a co… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics
description: A balanced argument presents points for and against, then gives a conclusion. Who acts: balanced argument. A sentence of the lesson «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 14

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A balanced argument presents points for and against, then gives a conclusion.

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**Who acts:** balanced argument · **What happens:** present, give · **To what, where:** points, conclusion

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing to inform, instruct and persuade» 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 (balanced argument), 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:14
# text = A balanced argument presents points for and against, then gives a conclusion.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	balanced	balanced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	presents	present	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | present | a balanced argument | points |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | a balanced argument *not said here* | a conclusion |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conclusion=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:044-writing-to-inform-instruct-and-persuade.lesson:14`.

**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 ×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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