Debating and discussion, sentence 1

Each point works best as point, reason, evidence: "Homework should stay, because practice helps memory; our spelling scores went up when we practised at home."

Who acts: point, Homework, practice, spelling scores, we, our · What happens: work, stay, help, go up, practise, score · To what, where: memory, home

This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» 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 (point, Homework, practice, spelling scores), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 point	det
2	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 works	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 point	case
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reason	punct
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 point	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 evidence	punct
10	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reason	conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 Homework	punct
13	Homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stay	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stay	aux
15	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 works	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 helps	punct
17	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 helps	mark
18	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 helps	nsubj
19	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stay	advcl
20	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 helps	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 scores	nmod:poss
23	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scores	compound
24	scores	score	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 went	nsubj
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 works	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 went	compound:prt
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 practised	advmod
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 practised	nsubj
29	practised	practise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 went	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 home	case
31	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 practised	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	present	each point			as point; well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as point=Attribute
2	stay in a quote	should	Homework				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help in a quote	present	practice	memory			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Beneficiary
4	go up in a quote	past	our spelling scores				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	practise in a quote	past	we		home		tree rules
6	score in a quote		our				nom score «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:1.

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): 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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