--- title: Each point works best as point, reason, evidence: "Homework should s… — Debating and discussion · tree and pragmatics description: Each point works best as point, reason, evidence: "Homework should stay, because practice helps memory; our spelling scores went up when we practised at home." Who acts: point, Homework, practice, spelling scores. A sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» of the english course of Mova's pri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/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/) / [Debating and discussion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/) / 1 # Debating and discussion, sentence 1 Each point works best as point, reason, evidence: "Homework should stay, because practice helps memory; our spelling scores went up when we practised at home." **Who acts:** point, Homework, practice, spelling scores, we, our · **What happens:** work, stay, help, go up, practise, score · **To what, where:** memory, home This is a sentence of the lesson «Debating and discussion» 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 (point, Homework, practice, spelling scores), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:049-debating-and-discussion.lesson:1 # text = Each point works best as point, reason, evidence: "Homework should stay, because practice helps memory; our spelling scores went up when we practised at home." # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 049-debating-and-discussion.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 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 evidence evidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Homework homework NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 20 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 scores score NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 28 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 practised practise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 33 " " 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 | **work** | present | each point | | | | | as point; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as point=Attribute | | 2 | **stay** *in a quote* | should | Homework | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** *in a quote* | present | practice | memory | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Beneficiary | | 4 | **go up** *in a quote* | past | our spelling scores | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **practise** *in a quote* | past | we | | | home | | | tree rules | | 6 | **score** *in a quote* | | our | | | | | | nom score «cognition 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:049-debating-and-discussion.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): 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/). - ← previous: [Debating and discussion, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/0/) - next →: [Debating and discussion, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/49-debating-and-discussion/)