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title: The teaching assistant or aide helps teach the class and is listened… — Questions, group work and the adults at school · tree and pragmatics
description: The teaching assistant or aide helps teach the class and is listened to like a teacher. Who acts: teaching assistant. A sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Questions, group work and the adults at school, sentence 14

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The teaching assistant or aide helps teach the class and is listened to like a teacher.

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**Who acts:** teaching assistant · **What happens:** help, teach, listen to · **To what, where:** class

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Questions, group work and the adults at school» of the everyday 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 (teaching assistant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.lesson:14
# text = The teaching assistant or aide helps teach the class and is listened to like a teacher.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	assistant	assistant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	aide	aide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	teach	teach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **help** | present | the teaching assistant or aide |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | infinitive | the teaching assistant or aide *not said here* | the class |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent class=Recipient |
| 3 | **listen to** | present · passive | the teaching assistant or aide *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a teacher | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme» |

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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:everyday:256-questions-group-work-and-adults-at-school.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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