Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 2

When Miss Adebayo holds up the snake card and hisses «sssss», the snake is showing the sound; «ess» is only the letter's name.

Who acts: Miss, snake, ess · What happens: hold up, hiss, show, be · To what, where: snake card, sssss, sound, 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 (Miss, snake, ess), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 holds	mark
2	Miss	miss	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 holds	nsubj
3	Adebayo	Adebayo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Miss	flat
4	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 showing	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 holds	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 card	det
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 card	compound
8	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hisses	cc
10	hisses	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 holds	conj
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 sssss	punct
12	sssss	sssss	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hisses	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 sssss	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 showing	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snake	det
16	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 showing	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 showing	aux
18	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sound	det
20	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 showing	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 name	punct
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	23 ess	punct
23	ess	ess	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 name	nsubj
24	»	»	PUNCT	_	23 ess	punct
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 name	cop
26	only	only	ADV	_	30 name	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 letter	det
28	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 name	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 letter	case
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 showing	parataxis
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 showing	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold up	present	Miss	the snake card	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot card=Theme
2	hiss	present	Miss not said here	sssss	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sssss=Topic
3	show	present · progressive	the snake	the sound	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sound=Recipient
4	is a	present	ess	the letter's name	tree rules

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:2.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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