--- title: Good writers change their style for the reader: the same news ("we w… — Putting it together: reading and writing like a… · tree and pragmatics description: Good writers change their style for the reader: the same news ("we won the match") is chatty for a friend and polite and clear for the head teacher. Who acts: Good writers, we, same news. 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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 (Good writers, we, same news), 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:3 # text = Good writers change their style for the reader: the same news ("we won the match") is chatty for a friend and polite and clear for the 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 writers writer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 won win VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 chatty chatty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 polite polite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 30 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Good writers | hook's style | | | | for the reader | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent style=Theme for reader=Co-Theme | | 2 | **win** *in a quote* | past | we | the match | | | | | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | the same news | | | | | for a friend; chatty *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **be** | | the same news *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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:054-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer.lesson:3`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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