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title: SATs are national tests that Year 6 children in England sit in May;… — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics
description: SATs are national tests that Year 6 children in England sit in May; the reading paper gives you about three texts, one hour and 50 marks. Who acts: SATs, Year 6 children, reading paper. A sentence of the lesson «SATs: the reading paper» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its depende
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# SATs: the reading paper, sentence 0

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SATs are national tests that Year 6 children in England sit in May; the reading paper gives you about three texts, one hour and 50 marks.

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**Who acts:** SATs, Year 6 children, reading paper · **What happens:** be, sit, give · **To what, where:** national tests, three texts, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: the reading paper» 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 (SATs, Year 6 children, reading paper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:051-sats-the-reading-paper.lesson:0
# text = SATs are national tests that Year 6 children in England sit in May; the reading paper gives you about three texts, one hour and 50 marks.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 051-sats-the-reading-paper.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	SATs	sat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
6	Year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod:unmarked|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	texts	text	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | SATs | national tests |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | Year 6 children in England | national tests |  |  | may |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | present | the reading paper | three texts and one hour and 50 marks | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient text=Theme |

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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:051-sats-the-reading-paper.lesson:0`.

**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, 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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