SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 8

A fronted adverbial comes at the start of a sentence and is followed by a comma: "Later that day, it snowed."

Who acts: fronted adverbial, comma, it · What happens: front, come, follow, snow, start · To what, where: start, sentence

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 (fronted adverbial, comma, it), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 adverbial	det
2	fronted	front	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 adverbial	amod
3	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 start	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 start	det
7	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sentence	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 sentence	det
10	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 start	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 followed	cc
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 followed	aux:pass
13	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 comes	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 comma	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 comma	det
16	comma	comma	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 followed	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 snowed	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 snowed	punct
19	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 day	advmod
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 snowed	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 day	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 snowed	nsubj
24	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 comes	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	front	participle					tree rules
2	come	present	a fronted adverbial		the start of a sentence		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at start=Location
3	follow	present · passive	a comma				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	snow in a quote	past	it			day	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
5	start			a sentence			nom start «event transitive»: of=patient

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:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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