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title: Instructions have a goal, a list of things needed, and numbered step… — Writing to inform, instruct and persuade · tree and pragmatics
description: Instructions have a goal, a list of things needed, and numbered steps in order. Who acts: Instructions. 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 6

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Instructions have a goal, a list of things needed, and numbered steps in order.

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**Who acts:** Instructions · **What happens:** have, need, number, list · **To what, where:** goal, things

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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 (Instructions), 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:6
# text = Instructions have a goal, a list of things needed, and numbered steps in order.
# 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): no change
1	Instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	goal	goal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Instructions | a goal and a list of things and numbered steps in order |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Patient |
| 2 | **need** | participle |  | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **number** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **list** |  |  | things |  |  |  |  | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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