--- title: Persuasion uses reasons, evidence and feelings, with a polite voice:… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics description: Persuasion uses reasons, evidence and feelings, with a polite voice: "Dear Council, the park is boss, don't close it or else!" sounds like a threat from a Liverpool lad ("boss" means great), while "Over 200 children play here every week" gives the council something to think about. 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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 (Persuasion, park, Dear Council, boss), 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:4 # text = Persuasion uses reasons, evidence and feelings, with a polite voice: "Dear Council, the park is boss, don't close it or else!" sounds like a threat from a Liverpool lad ("boss" means great), while "Over 200 children play here every week" gives the council something to think about. # 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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Persuasion persuasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 feelings feeling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 13 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Council Council PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 close close VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 else else ADV RB _ 25 conj _ _ 29 ! ! PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 31 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 like like ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 Liverpool Liverpool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 boss boss NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 44 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 43 punct _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 47 while while SCONJ IN _ 57 mark _ _ 48 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=51:punct 49 Over over ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=51:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 50 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 51 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 57 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=57:csubj 53 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 52 advmod _ _ 54 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 55 det _ _ 55 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl:unmarked _ _ 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ 57 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=60:det 59 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 iobj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=60:compound 60 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 57 obj _ _ 61 to to PART TO _ 62 mark _ _ 62 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 acl _ _ 63 about about ADP IN _ 62 obl _ _ 64 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=57:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present | Persuasion | reasons and evidence and feelings | | | | with a polite voice | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the park | boss | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **close** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | park | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **sound** | present | Dear Council | | | | | like a threat from a Liverpool lad | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **mean** | present | boss | | | | | great *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **play** *in a quote* | present | 200 children | | | here | week | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **give** | present | Persuasion *not said here* | something | the council | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent council=Recipient something=Theme | | 8 | **think about** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Persuasion *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:4`. **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): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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