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title: Many marks are lost not from not knowing but from not doing exactly… — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics
description: Many marks are lost not from not knowing but from not doing exactly what the question says: "find and copy one word" means one word, and "tick two" means two ticks. Who acts: question, tick. A sentence of the lesson «SATs: the reading paper» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# SATs: the reading paper, sentence 2

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Many marks are lost not from not knowing but from not doing exactly what the question says: "find and copy one word" means one word, and "tick two" means two ticks.

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**Who acts:** question, tick · **What happens:** lose, not know, not do, say, find, copy · **To what, where:** Many marks, one word, two ticks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (question, tick), 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:2
# text = Many marks are lost not from not knowing but from not doing exactly what the question says: "find and copy one word" means one word, and "tick two" means two ticks.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	csubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	copy	copy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
26	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	flat	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
35	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	ticks	tick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	.	.	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 | **lose** | present · passive |  | Many marks |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **know** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the question |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **find** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **copy** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | one word |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 7 | **mean** | present |  | one word |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 8 | **mean** | present | tick | two ticks |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Topic |

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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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**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 ×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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