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title: Many schools use a special pen colour, often purple or green, for ed… — Editing and redrafting · tree and pragmatics
description: Many schools use a special pen colour, often purple or green, for edits, so the teacher can see the improvements. Who acts: Many schools, teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Editing and redrafting, sentence 8

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Many schools use a special pen colour, often purple or green, for edits, so the teacher can see the improvements.

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**Who acts:** Many schools, teacher · **What happens:** use, see · **To what, where:** special pen colour, improvements

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» 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 (Many schools, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:8
# text = Many schools use a special pen colour, often purple or green, for edits, so the teacher can see the improvements.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 043-editing-and-redrafting.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
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	edits	edit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	improvements	improvement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Many schools | a special pen colour |  |  |  | for edits | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent colour=Theme for edit=Eventuality |
| 2 | **see** | can | the teacher | the improvements |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer improvement=Stimulus |

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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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**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. **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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