--- title: They are not random hard words; most are words children need in thei… — Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics description: They are not random hard words; most are words children need in their own writing all the time. Who acts: children, most, random hard words. A sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutor…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/) / 1 # Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 1 They are not random hard words; most are words children need in their own writing all the time. **Who acts:** children, most, random hard words · **What happens:** not be, be, need, write · **To what, where:** random hard words, words, own writing This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» 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 (children, most, random hard words), 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:1 # text = They are not random hard words; most are words children need in their own writing all the time. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 4 random random ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 8 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:JJS:_ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:appos 11 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 17 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 19 det:predet _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | children *= child* | random hard words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | most | words | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **need** | present | random hard words | | | children's own writing | time | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **write** | | children *= child* | | | | | | nom writing «act 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](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: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): R6-punct-agree ×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: [Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutor…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/0/) - next →: [Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutor…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/13-words-to-know-years-3-4/)