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title: A book band is a colour level used in many UK primary schools to mat… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics
description: A book band is a colour level used in many UK primary schools to match early reading books to a child's reading. Who acts: book band, child. A sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 21

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A book band is a colour level used in many UK primary schools to match early reading books to a child's reading.

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**Who acts:** book band, child · **What happens:** be, use, match, read · **To what, where:** colour level, many UK primary schools, early reading books

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» 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 (book band, child), 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:21
# text = A book band is a colour level used in many UK primary schools to match early reading books to a child's reading.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	UK	UK	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	primary	primary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
16	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	reading	read	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a book band | a colour level |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  | a colour level *not said here* |  | many UK primary schools |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **match** | to-infinitive |  | early reading books |  |  |  | to a child's reading | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient to reading=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **read** |  | a child |  |  |  |  |  | nom reading «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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:21`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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