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title: But neat letters and good writing are different skills: a brilliant… — Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up · tree and pragmatics
description: But neat letters and good writing are different skills: a brilliant story can come in messy letters, and the two are marked separately. Who acts: neat letters, brilliant story. A sentence of the lesson «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» of the english course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up, sentence 14

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But neat letters and good writing are different skills: a brilliant story can come in messy letters, and the two are marked separately.

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**Who acts:** neat letters, brilliant story · **What happens:** be, come, mark · **To what, where:** different skills, messy letters, two

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» 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 (neat letters, brilliant story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.lesson:14
# text = But neat letters and good writing are different skills: a brilliant story can come in messy letters, and the two are marked separately.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.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	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	writing	writing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	messy	messy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
25	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | neat letters and good writing | different skills |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | can | a brilliant story |  |  | messy letters |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in letter=Location |
| 3 | **mark** | present · passive |  | the two |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |

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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:005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.lesson:14`.

**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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