Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 25

Fluent readers still use phonics, fast and silently, and slow down to it when they meet a hard new word.

Who acts: Fluent readers, readers · What happens: use, slow down, meet · To what, where: phonics, child, hard new word

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 (Fluent readers, readers), 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	Fluent	fluent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 readers	amod
2	readers	reader	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
3	still	still	ADV	_	4 use	advmod
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	phonics	phonics	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fast	punct
7	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 use	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 silently	cc
9	silently	silently	ADV	_	7 fast	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slow	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slow	cc
12	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 slow	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slow	obl
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 meet	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meet	nsubj
18	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 slow	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 word	det
20	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 word	amod
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 word	amod
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 meet	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	use	present	Fluent readers	phonics		still	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phonics=Patient
2	slow down	present	Fluent readers not said here		child		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	meet	present	readers = reader	a hard new word			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Co-Agent

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:25.

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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