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title: In written dialogue, speech marks go around the words spoken, and ea… — Putting it together: reading and writing like a… · tree and pragmatics
description: In written dialogue, speech marks go around the words spoken, and each new speaker starts a new line. Who acts: speech marks, new speaker. A sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the
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# Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 10

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In written dialogue, speech marks go around the words spoken, and each new speaker starts a new line.

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**Who acts:** speech marks, new speaker · **What happens:** write, go, speak, start · **To what, where:** written dialogue, words, new line · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer» 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 (speech marks, new speaker), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:10
# text = In written dialogue, speech marks go around the words spoken, and each new speaker starts a new line.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	dialogue	dialogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	around	around	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	speaker	speaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | present | speech marks |  |  | written dialogue |  | around the words | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme around word=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  | the words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **start** | present | each new speaker | a new line |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Eventuality |

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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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:10`.

**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): R8-pos-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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