--- title: Grammar terms are useful because they let you talk about how sentenc… — SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper · tree and pragmatics description: Grammar terms are useful because they let you talk about how sentences work, though nobody needs to know every term perfectly. Who acts: Grammar terms, terms, you, sentences. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grammar terms, terms, you, sentences), 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:16 # text = Grammar terms are useful because they let you talk about how sentences work, though nobody needs to know every term perfectly. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 terms term NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 let let VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 about about SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 sentences sentence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 though though SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 17 nsubj _ _ 17 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:conj 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 term term NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Grammar terms | | | | | useful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **let** | present | terms *= term* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **work** | present | sentences | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **need** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | every term | | | | perfectly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer term=Stimulus | 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. **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:16`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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. 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