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title: Missing a small word like "not" can turn a right answer into a wrong… — SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper · tree and pragmatics
description: Missing a small word like "not" can turn a right answer into a wrong one. Who acts: Missing. A sentence of the lesson «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling 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: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 14

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Missing a small word like "not" can turn a right answer into a wrong one.

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**Who acts:** Missing · **What happens:** miss, turn · **To what, where:** small word, right answer

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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 (Missing), 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:14
# text = Missing a small word like "not" can turn a right answer into a wrong one.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Missing	miss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	nmod	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:acl
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **miss** | gerund |  | a small word |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **turn** | can | Missing | a right answer |  |  |  | into a wrong one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent answer=Theme into one=Trajectory |

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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:14`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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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