Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 14
And a big sister who calls phonics «mid» (teen slang for boring) used it herself, and still does, fast and silently.
Who acts: big sister · What happens: call, use · To what, where: phonics, 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 (big sister), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 used | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 used | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 calls | nsubj |
| 6 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sister | acl:relcl |
| 7 | phonics | phonic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 calls | obj |
| 8 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 mid | punct |
| 9 | mid | mid | X | _ | 10 » | compound |
| 10 | » | » | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 used | nsubj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 slang | punct |
| 12 | teen | teen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slang | compound |
| 13 | slang | slang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mid | appos |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 boring | case |
| 15 | boring | boring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slang | nmod |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 slang | punct |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 used | obj |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 used | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 does | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 does | cc |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 does | advmod |
| 23 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 used | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fast | punct |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 does | advmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 silently | cc |
| 27 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 25 fast | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 used | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | a big sister | phonics | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent phonic=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | use | past | a big sister | word | » obl | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.
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