Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 22

Schools teach sounds in a fixed order (phases or sets), starting with s, a, t, p, i, n, so children can read real words from the first week.

Who acts: Schools, i · What happens: teach, fix, start, read · To what, where: sounds, real words

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, i), 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	Schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teach	nsubj
2	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teach	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 order	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 order	det
6	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 order	amod
7	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounds	obl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	9 phases	punct
9	phases	phase	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 order	appos
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sets	cc
11	sets	set	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 phases	conj
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	9 phases	punct
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 starting	punct
14	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 teach	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 s	case
16	s	s	NOUN	_	14 starting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 a	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 t	det
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 t	punct
20	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounds	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 t	punct
22	p	p	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 t	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 i	punct
24	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 read	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 i	punct
26	n	and	CCONJ	Abbr=Yes	31 read	cc
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 n	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	31 read	advmod
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 read	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 read	aux
31	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 teach	conj
32	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 words	amod
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 read	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 week	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 week	det
36	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 week	amod
37	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 read	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 teach	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present	Schools	sounds			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sound=Recipient
2	fix	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	start	gerund	Schools not said here			with s	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with s=Subeventuality
4	read	can	i	real words	week		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic

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:22.

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 ×4, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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