Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 11

Made-up «alien words» like «zib» are read on purpose: they show a child is really reading the sounds and not guessing a word they remember.

Who acts: Schools, child · What happens: make up, read, show, not guess, remember · To what, where: Made alien words, purpose, sounds, word · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sounds and letters: how phonics starts» 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 (Schools, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 words	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Made	punct
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Made	compound:prt
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 words	punct
5	alien	alien	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 read	nsubj:pass
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 words	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 zib	case
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 zib	punct
10	zib	zib	X	_	6 words	nmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 zib	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 read	aux:pass
13	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 purpose	case
15	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 read	obl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 show	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 show	nsubj
18	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 read	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reading	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 reading	aux
22	really	really	ADV	_	23 reading	advmod
23	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 show	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sounds	det
25	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 reading	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 guessing	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 guessing	advmod
28	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 reading	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 word	det
30	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 guessing	obj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 remember	nsubj
32	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 word	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 read	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	make up	participle				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	read	present · passive		Made alien words like zib	purpose	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	show	present	Schools = school			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	read	present · progressive	a child	the sounds		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic
5	not guess	gerund	a child not said here	a word		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
6	remember	present	Schools = school	a word not said here		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme

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.

Licence: CC 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:001-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts.lesson:11.

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): R4-particle ×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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