--- title: Little words change everything: "Circle the word that is NOT a noun"… — SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper · tree and pragmatics description: Little words change everything: "Circle the word that is NOT a noun" asks the opposite of "Circle the noun", so read the whole question. Who acts: Little words, word, Circle. 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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 (Little words, word, Circle), 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:2 # text = Little words change everything: "Circle the word that is NOT a noun" asks the opposite of "Circle the noun", so read the whole question. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 3 obj _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Circle Circle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:appos 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 11 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 12 NOT not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 acl:relcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 16 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 opposite opposite NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 Circle Circle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 noun noun NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 list _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | present | Little words | everything | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | | 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | the word | a noun | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Circle | the opposite of Circle | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent opposite=Recipient | | 4 | **read** | infinitive | Circle *not said here* | the whole question | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic | 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:2`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-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. 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