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title: SATs began in England in the 1990s; before that schools had other te… — Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" · tree and pragmatics
description: SATs began in England in the 1990s; before that schools had other tests. Who acts: SATs, schools. A sentence of the lesson «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic", sentence 14

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SATs began in England in the 1990s; before that schools had other tests.

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**Who acts:** SATs, schools · **What happens:** begin, have · **To what, where:** England, other tests

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» 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 (SATs, schools), 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:14
# text = SATs began in England in the 1990s; before that schools had other tests.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	SATs	sat	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
2	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	1990s	1990s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	2	obl	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	schools	school	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tests	test	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | SATs |  |  | England |  | in the 1990s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **have** | past | that schools | other tests |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Patient |

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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:053-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic.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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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