--- title: The truth is calmer: SATs mainly help show how well schools are teac… — Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" · tree and pragmatics description: The truth is calmer: SATs mainly help show how well schools are teaching, and in most of England your secondary school place does not depend on your SATs results. Who acts: truth, SATs, schools, school place. 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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 (truth, SATs, schools, school place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.lesson:1 # text = The truth is calmer: SATs mainly help show how well schools are teaching, and in most of England your secondary school place does not depend on your SATs results. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 calmer calm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 6 SATs sat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 7 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod 8 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 9 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 10 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 11 well well ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 teaching teach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 obl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 secondary secondary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 depend depend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 SATs sat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 compound _ _ 31 results result NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the truth | | | | | calm *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | SATs | | | | | mainly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **show** | infinitive | SATs *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · progressive | schools | | | | | well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **depend** | present · do-support | your school place | | | most of England | | on your SATs results | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on result=Theme | | 6 | **result** | | your | | | | | | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-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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