Honest work at school, sentence 1

A test shows the teacher what you know so they can help with what you do not; homework is practice that makes things stick.

Who acts: test, you, Tests, homework, practice, things · What happens: show, know, help, not do, be, make · To what, where: teacher, practice, things

This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest work at school» of the everyday 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 (test, you, Tests, homework), 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	2 test	det
2	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 teacher	det
5	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 shows	obj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
8	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 help	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 help	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 help	aux
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shows	advcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 what	case
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 help	obl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 what	acl:relcl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 do	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct
19	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 practice	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 practice	cop
21	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	parataxis
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 makes	nsubj
23	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 practice	acl:relcl
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 makes	obj
25	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 makes	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	show	present	a test		the teacher	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient what=Topic
2	know	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	help	can	Tests = test			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with what=Theme
4	not do	present	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	homework	practice		tree rules
6	make	present	practice	things		tree rules
7	stick	infinitive	things not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:everyday:201-cheating-in-tests-and-homework.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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