--- title: In England the National Curriculum gives a list of about 100 words t… — Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics description: In England the National Curriculum gives a list of about 100 words that children in Years 3 and 4 (ages 7 to 9) should learn to spell: accident, actually, address, answer, believe, business, February, grammar, height, island, library, possession, separate and many more. 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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 (National Curriculum, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:0 # text = In England the National Curriculum gives a list of about 100 words that children in Years 3 and 4 (ages 7 to 9) should learn to spell: accident, actually, address, answer, believe, business, February, grammar, height, island, library, possession, separate and many more. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 013-words-to-know-years-3-4.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 National National ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Curriculum Curriculum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Years Year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=17:cc 19 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 17 conj _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 parataxis _ _ 22 7 7 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 flat _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nmod _ _ 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 26 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl:relcl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 spell spell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 31 accident accident NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 actually actually ADV RB _ 39 parataxis _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 address address NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 39 believe believe VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 appos _ _ 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 conj _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 appos _ _ 50 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 51 library library NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 52 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 53 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ _ 54 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 55 separate separate VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=55:cc 57 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 55 conj _ _ 59 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | the National Curriculum | a list of 100 words | | England | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme | | 2 | **learn** | should | children in Years | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **spell** | to-infinitive | children in Years *not said here* | that | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 4 | **believe** | infinitive | | address and answer | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent address=Theme business=Eventuality | | 5 | **separate** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **list** | | | 100 words | | | | | nom list «communication 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](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:english:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Prefixes: un-, dis-, mis-, re-, pre-,…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/12-prefixes-un-dis-mis-re-pre-in-im-il-ir/24/) - next →: [Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutor…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/)