--- title: Exams like GCSEs and A levels open doors later, but people who do ba… — Money, work and the big choices · tree and pragmatics description: Exams like GCSEs and A levels open doors later, but people who do badly can retake them or find other routes; steady work beats panicking the night before. Who acts: Exams, steady work. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Exams, steady work), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson:14 # text = Exams like GCSEs and A levels open doors later, but people who do badly can retake them or find other routes; steady work beats panicking the night before. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Exams exam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 2 like like ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 GCSEs GCSEs NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 levels level NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 7 open open VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 15 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 retake retake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 21 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 routes route NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 steady steady ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 27 panicking panic VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl:unmarked _ _ 30 before before ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **open** | present | Exams like GCSEs and a levels | doors | | | | late *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 2 | **retake** | can · present · do-support | | people | | | | badly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | infinitive | | other routes | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent route=Topic | | 4 | **beat** | present | steady work | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **panic** | gerund | steady work *not said here* | | | | night | before *property* | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:039-money-work-and-the-big-choices.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Money, work and the big choices, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/13/) - next →: [Money, work and the big choices, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/39-money-work-and-the-big-choices/)