--- title: Studies have found that children who read for pleasure tend to know… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics description: Studies have found that children who read for pleasure tend to know more words and do better at school, though it is hard to measure exactly how much the reading itself causes. Who acts: Studies, children, reading. 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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 (Studies, children, reading), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:15 # text = Studies have found that children who read for pleasure tend to know more words and do better at school, though it is hard to measure exactly how much the reading itself causes. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 5 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 tend tend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 14 amod _ _ 14 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 17 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 though though SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 expl _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 measure measure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 csubj _ _ 27 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 28 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 29 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 reading reading NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:compound 32 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 31 nmod:unmarked _ _ 33 causes cause NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | present · perfect | Studies | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **read** | present | children | | | | | for pleasure | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tend** | present | children | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **know** | to-infinitive | children *not said here* | more words | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 5 | **do** | infinitive | children *not said here* | | | school | | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | children *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **measure** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **cause** | | the reading pleasure | | | | | | tree rules | 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:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:15`. **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, 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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