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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 t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [SATs: grammar, punctuation and spellin…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/) / 8 # SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper, sentence 8 A fronted adverbial comes at the start of a sentence and is followed by a comma: "Later that day, it snowed." **Who acts:** fronted adverbial, comma, it · **What happens:** front, come, follow, snow, start · **To what, where:** start, sentence 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 (fronted adverbial, comma, it), 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:8 # text = A fronted adverbial comes at the start of a sentence and is followed by a comma: "Later that day, it snowed." # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fronted front VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 3 adverbial adverbial NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 followed follow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 comma comma NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 19 Later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 20 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 snowed snow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **front** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | present | a fronted adverbial | | | the start of a sentence | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at start=Location | | 3 | **follow** | present · passive | a comma | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **snow** *in a quote* | past | it | | | | day | | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 5 | **start** | | | a sentence | | | | | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient | 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:8`. **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 ×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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