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title: Writing in all capitals usually feels like shouting in a text, but s… — Texting, abbreviations and emoji · tree and pragmatics
description: Writing in all capitals usually feels like shouting in a text, but some older people use capitals because they are easier to read. Who acts: older people, people. A sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# Texting, abbreviations and emoji, sentence 11

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Writing in all capitals usually feels like shouting in a text, but some older people use capitals because they are easier to read.

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**Who acts:** older people, people · **What happens:** writing, feel, shout, use, be, read · **To what, where:** capitals, text

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Texting, abbreviations and emoji» of the language 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 (older people, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.lesson:11
# text = Writing in all capitals usually feels like shouting in a text, but some older people use capitals because they are easier to read.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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	Writing	writing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
5	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **writing** | gerund |  |  |  | all capitals |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | present |  |  |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  | a text |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **use** | present | some older people | capitals |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capital=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **read** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: 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:language:030-texting-abbreviations-and-emoji.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): 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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