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title: "Tick two" means exactly two ticks; a third tick loses the mark. — SATs: the reading paper · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tick two" means exactly two ticks; a third tick loses the mark. Who acts: Tick, third tick. A sentence of the lesson «SATs: the reading paper» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# SATs: the reading paper, sentence 9

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"Tick two" means exactly two ticks; a third tick loses the mark.

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**Who acts:** Tick, third tick · **What happens:** mean, lose · **To what, where:** two ticks, mark

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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 (Tick, third 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:9
# text = "Tick two" means exactly two ticks; a third tick loses the mark.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	ticks	tick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	loses	lose	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **mean** | present | Tick | two ticks |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Topic |
| 2 | **lose** | present | a third tick | the mark |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Eventuality |

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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:9`.

**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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