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title: Teachers check things like paragraphs, cohesion (ideas joined smooth… — Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers check things like paragraphs, cohesion (ideas joined smoothly), punctuation and a range of sentence types: short and long, questions and exclamations. Who acts: Teachers. A sentence of the lesson «Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"» of the english course of Mova's primary school with
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# Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic", sentence 3

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Teachers check things like paragraphs, cohesion (ideas joined smoothly), punctuation and a range of sentence types: short and long, questions and exclamations.

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**Who acts:** Teachers · **What happens:** check, join · **To what, where:** things, ideas

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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 (Teachers), 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:3
# text = Teachers check things like paragraphs, cohesion (ideas joined smoothly), punctuation and a range of sentence types: short and long, questions and exclamations.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	check	check	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	paragraphs	paragraph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cohesion	cohesion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
10	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	punctuation	punctuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	types	type	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	exclamations	exclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | present | Teachers | things |  |  |  | like paragraphs and cohesion and punctuation and a range of sentence types and questions and exclamations | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | ideas *not said here* |  |  |  | smoothly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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