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title: Writers change their register for their reader: chatty for a friend,… — Putting it together: reading and writing like a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Writers change their register for their reader: chatty for a friend, formal for a head teacher. Who acts: Writers, techniques. 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 pragmatics 
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# Putting it together: reading and writing like a writer, sentence 13

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Writers change their register for their reader: chatty for a friend, formal for a head teacher.

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**Who acts:** Writers, techniques · **What happens:** change, register · **To what, where:** register

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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 (Writers, techniques), 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:13
# text = Writers change their register for their reader: chatty for a friend, formal for a head teacher.
# 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): no change
1	Writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	register	register	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	chatty	chatty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	formal	formal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **change** | present | Writers | techniques's register |  |  |  | for techniques's reader | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent register=Theme for reader=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **register** |  | techniques *= technique* |  |  |  |  |  | nom register «communication intransitive»: poss=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:13`.

**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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