Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 24

Phonics is teaching reading by matching sounds to letters; many grown-ups learned whole words by their shape instead, but phonics lets a child work out words they have never seen.

Who acts: Phonics, many grown ups, child · What happens: teach, match, learn, let, work out, not see · To what, where: reading, sounds, whole words, 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 (Phonics, many grown ups, child), 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	Phonics	phonic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 teaching	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 teaching	aux
3	teaching	teach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 teaching	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 matching	mark
6	matching	match	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 reading	advcl
7	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 matching	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 letters	case
9	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 matching	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 grown	punct
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ups	amod
12	grown	grow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ups	amod
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ups	punct
14	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learned	nsubj
15	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 teaching	parataxis
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 words	amod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learned	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 shape	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shape	nmod:poss
20	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 learned	obl
21	instead	instead	ADV	_	15 learned	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 lets	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 lets	cc
24	phonics	phonic	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lets	nsubj
25	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 teaching	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 child	det
27	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 work	nsubj
28	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 lets	xcomp
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 work	compound:prt
30	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 work	obj
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 seen	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 seen	advmod
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 words	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 teaching	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	present · progressive	Phonics	reading		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reading=Recipient
2	match	gerund	Phonics not said here	sounds	to letters	vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sound=Patient to letter=Co-Patient
3	learn	past	many grown ups	whole words	by ups's shape; instead property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
4	let	present	phonics			tree rules
5	work out	infinitive	a child	words		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
6	not see	present · perfect	phonics = phonic	words not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

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:24.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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