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title: A diary entry is written in the first person (I, we), usually in the… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics
description: A diary entry is written in the first person (I, we), usually in the past tense, and shares feelings as well as events. 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 15

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A diary entry is written in the first person (I, we), usually in the past tense, and shares feelings as well as events.

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**What happens:** write, share · **To what, where:** diary entry, feelings

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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: 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:15
# text = A diary entry is written in the first person (I, we), usually in the past tense, and shares feelings as well as events.
# 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	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	entry	entry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tense	tense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	shares	share	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	28	cc	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
28	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | present · passive |  | a diary entry |  |  |  | in the first person and the past tense | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in person=Destination |
| 2 | **share** | present |  | feelings as events |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:15`.

**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/).

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