Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 15
Every letter has a name (ay, bee, see) and a sound (/a/, /b/, /k/); for reading, the sound comes first.
Who acts: letter, sound · What happens: have, see, come · To what, where: name
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 (letter, sound), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 ay | punct |
| 7 | ay | ay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bee | punct |
| 9 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ay | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 ay | parataxis |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 ay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sound | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sound | det |
| 15 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 / | punct |
| 17 | / | / | SYM | _ | 19 / | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 / | det |
| 19 | / | / | SYM | _ | 15 sound | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 b | punct |
| 21 | / | / | SYM | _ | 35 comes | cc |
| 22 | b | b | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 / | conj |
| 23 | / | / | SYM | _ | 26 k | cc |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 k | punct |
| 25 | / | / | SYM | _ | 26 k | cc |
| 26 | k | k | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 b | conj |
| 27 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 26 k | punct |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 k | punct |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 comes | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 reading | case |
| 31 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 comes | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 reading | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sound | det |
| 34 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 comes | nsubj |
| 35 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 36 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 35 comes | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | every letter | a name and a sound | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | come | present | the sound | for reading; first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:15.
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 ×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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