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title: A mark on a test is like a map that shows where you are now, not a l… — Marks, group work, help at school and learning n… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mark on a test is like a map that shows where you are now, not a label stuck on you for ever. Who acts: mark, map, you. A sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills, sentence 0

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A mark on a test is like a map that shows where you are now, not a label stuck on you for ever.

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**Who acts:** mark, map, you · **What happens:** be, show, stick · **To what, where:** label

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Marks, group work, help at school and learning new skills» 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 (mark, map, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:0
# text = A mark on a test is like a map that shows where you are now, not a label stuck on you for ever.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	map	map	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
20	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	_	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | a mark on a test |  |  |  |  | like a map and a label | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present | a map and a label |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | now *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stick** | participle |  | a label *not said here* |  |  |  | on you | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on you=Destination |

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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:307-marks-group-work-helpers-at-school-and-learning-skills.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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