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description: The GPS paper tests grammar, punctuation and spelling: a 45-minute paper of about 50 short questions, plus a separate spelling test of 20 words. Who acts: GPS paper. A sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its depen
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# SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 0

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The GPS paper tests grammar, punctuation and spelling: a 45-minute paper of about 50 short questions, plus a separate spelling test of 20 words.

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**Who acts:** GPS paper · **What happens:** test · **To what, where:** grammar, 20 words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling 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 (GPS paper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper.lesson:0
# text = The GPS paper tests grammar, punctuation and spelling: a 45-minute paper of about 50 short questions, plus a separate spelling test of 20 words.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	GPS	gp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tests	test	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	grammar	grammar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	punctuation	punctuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	spelling	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	45	45	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **test** | present | the GPS paper | grammar and punctuation and spelling plus a separate spelling test of 20 words |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grammar=Theme |
| 2 | **test** |  |  | 20 words |  |  |  |  | nom test «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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:052-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-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): no change. **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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