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title: Handwriting (presentation) and composition (what is written and how… — Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up · tree and pragmatics
description: Handwriting (presentation) and composition (what is written and how well) are different skills and are marked separately. Who acts: Handwriting. 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 p
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# Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up, sentence 25

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Handwriting (presentation) and composition (what is written and how well) are different skills and are marked separately.

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**Who acts:** Handwriting · **What happens:** write, be, mark · **To what, where:** composition, different skills

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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 (Handwriting), 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:25
# text = Handwriting (presentation) and composition (what is written and how well) are different skills and 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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Handwriting	handwriting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
3	presentation	presentation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	composition	composition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	skills	skill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	separately	separately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10: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 | **write** | present · passive |  | composition |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Handwriting and composition | different skills |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mark** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | separately *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V» |

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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:25`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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