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title: A writer's toolkit is a list of techniques (openings, description, d… — Putting it together: reading and writing like a… · tree and pragmatics
description: A writer's toolkit is a list of techniques (openings, description, dialogue) to check before and while writing. Who acts: toolkit. 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 pragmat
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# Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 11

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A writer's toolkit is a list of techniques (openings, description, dialogue) to check before and while writing.

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**Who acts:** toolkit · **What happens:** be, check · **To what, where:** list

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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 (toolkit), 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:11
# text = A writer's toolkit is a list of techniques (openings, description, dialogue) to check before and while writing.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	toolkit	toolkit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	techniques	technique	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	_
11	openings	opening	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dialogue	dialogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:acl
19	before	before	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a writer's toolkit | a list and description |  |  |  | of techniques | tree rules |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | a writer's toolkit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | before *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:11`.

**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 ×2, 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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