Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 18
English has 26 letters but about 44 sounds, so some sounds are written with letter teams.
Who acts: English · What happens: have, write · To what, where: 26 letters, sounds
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 (English), 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 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 letters | nummod |
| 4 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 sounds | cc |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 44 | advmod |
| 7 | 44 | 44 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 sounds | nummod |
| 8 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 letters | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 written | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 written | advmod |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 sounds | det |
| 12 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 written | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | aux:pass |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 has | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 teams | case |
| 16 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 teams | compound |
| 17 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 written | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | English | 26 letters but 44 sounds | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | write | present · passive | some sounds | with letter teams | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:18.
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.
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