SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 16

Grammar terms are useful because they let you talk about how sentences work, though nobody needs to know every term perfectly.

Who acts: Grammar terms, terms, you, sentences, nobody · What happens: be, let, talk, work, need, know · To what, where: you, term

This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» 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 (Grammar terms, terms, you, sentences), 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	Grammar	grammar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 terms	compound
2	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 useful	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	cop
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 let	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	nsubj
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 work	mark
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 work	advmod
12	sentences	sentence	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 work	nsubj
13	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 needs	punct
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 needs	mark
16	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 needs	nsubj
17	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 know	mark
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 needs	xcomp
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 term	det
21	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 know	obj
22	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	19 know	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 useful	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Grammar terms		useful property	tree rules
2	let	present	terms = term	you		tree rules
3	talk	infinitive	you not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	present	sentences			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	need	present	nobody			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	every term	perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer term=Stimulus

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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:16.

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, R8-pos-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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