Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 26
Children who speak another language at home sort out the sounds fine; a home language does not hold back English reading.
Who acts: Children, home language · What happens: speak, sort out, not hold back · To what, where: language, home, sounds, English reading · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Children, home language), 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 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sort | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Children | acl:relcl |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 language | det |
| 5 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speak | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 home | case |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speak | obl |
| 8 | sort | sort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sort | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sounds | det |
| 11 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sort | obj |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sort | xcomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 sort | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 language | det |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 language | compound |
| 16 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hold | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 hold | advmod |
| 19 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sort | parataxis |
| 20 | back | back | ADP | _ | 19 hold | compound:prt |
| 21 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reading | amod |
| 22 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sort | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | Children | another language | home | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sort out | present | Children | the sounds | fine property | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | |||
| 3 | not hold back | present · do-support | a home language | English reading | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=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:26.
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): 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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