Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic", sentence 1
The truth is calmer: SATs mainly help show how well schools are teaching, and in most of England your secondary school place does not depend on your SATs results.
Who acts: truth, SATs, schools, school place, your · What happens: be, help, show, teach, not depend, result · To what, where: most · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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 (truth, SATs, schools, school place), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 truth | det |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calmer | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 calmer | cop |
| 4 | calmer | calm | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 SATs | punct |
| 6 | SATs | sat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 help | nsubj |
| 7 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 8 help | advmod |
| 8 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 calmer | parataxis |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | xcomp |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 well | advmod |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | _ | 14 teaching | advmod |
| 12 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 teaching | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 teaching | aux |
| 14 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 show | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 depend | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 depend | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 most | case |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 depend | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 England | case |
| 20 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 most | nmod |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 place | nmod:poss |
| 22 | secondary | secondary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 school | amod |
| 23 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | compound |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 depend | nsubj |
| 25 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 depend | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 depend | advmod |
| 27 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 help | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 results | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 results | nmod:poss |
| 30 | SATs | sat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 results | compound |
| 31 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 depend | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 calmer | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the truth | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | SATs | mainly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | infinitive | SATs not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | present · progressive | schools | well property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not depend | present · do-support | your school place | most of England | on your SATs results | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on result=Theme | |||
| 6 | result | your | nom result «phenomenon 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:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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