Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic", sentence 14

SATs began in England in the 1990s; before that schools had other tests.

Who acts: SATs, schools · What happens: begin, have · To what, where: England, other tests

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 (SATs, schools), 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	SATs	sat	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 England	case
4	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 began	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 1990s	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 1990s	det
7	1990s	1990s	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	2 began	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 schools	det
11	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 began	parataxis
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tests	amod
14	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	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	begin	past	SATs			England		in the 1990s	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	have	past	that schools	other tests					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=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:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.lesson:14.

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): 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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