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title: Cohesion means a piece holds together: words like "however", "after… — Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic" · tree and pragmatics
description: Cohesion means a piece holds together: words like "however", "after that" and "as a result" link the ideas. Who acts: Cohesion, piece. 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 ev
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# Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic", sentence 7

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Cohesion means a piece holds together: words like "however", "after that" and "as a result" link the ideas.

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**Who acts:** Cohesion, piece · **What happens:** mean, hold together, link · **To what, where:** words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Cohesion, piece), 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:7
# text = Cohesion means a piece holds together: words like "however", "after that" and "as a result" link the ideas.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3
1	Cohesion	cohesion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	conj	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	link	link	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | Cohesion |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hold together** | present | a piece |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **link** | present | Cohesion *not said here* | words |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent word=Patient idea=Result |

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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:7`.

**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. **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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