--- title: Legible means clear enough to read; in a test, writing the marker ca… — Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up · tree and pragmatics description: Legible means clear enough to read; in a test, writing the marker cannot read cannot get a mark. Who acts: Legible, writing. A sentence of the lesson «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/22/) [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/) / [Handwriting: holding the pencil and jo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/) / 22 # Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up, sentence 22 Legible means clear enough to read; in a test, writing the marker cannot read cannot get a mark. **Who acts:** Legible, writing · **What happens:** mean, read, write, not read, not get · **To what, where:** marker, mark, test 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 (Legible, writing), 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:22 # text = Legible means clear enough to read; in a test, writing the marker cannot read cannot get a mark. # 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Legible legible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 nsubj _ _ 2 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:ccomp 4 enough enough ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 writing write VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 csubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 marker marker NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 acl _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | Legible | | | | | clear *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **read** | to-infinitive | Legible *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **write** | gerund | | the marker | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marker=Theme | | 4 | **not** **read** | can | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **get** | can | writing | a mark | | a test | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | 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:005-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up.lesson:22`. **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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. 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