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title: Squeeze a pea-sized blob of toothpaste."), so a story about your mor… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics
description: Squeeze a pea-sized blob of toothpaste."), so a story about your morning will not get anyone's teeth clean. Who acts: you, story. 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 cl
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# Writing to inform, instruct and persuade, sentence 2

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Squeeze a pea-sized blob of toothpaste."), so a story about your morning will not get anyone's teeth clean.

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**Who acts:** you, story · **What happens:** squeeze, size, not get · **To what, where:** sized blob, teeth

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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 (you, story), 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:2
# text = Squeeze a pea-sized blob of toothpaste."), so a story about your morning will not get anyone's teeth clean.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	blob	blob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	toothpaste	toothpaste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
11	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:conj
22	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
25	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **squeeze** | imperative | you *not said here* | a sized blob of toothpaste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | future | a story about your morning | anyone's teeth |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Stimulus |

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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:2`.

**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): R7-rel-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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