Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 3
Reading starts from the sounds, because sounds glue together and names do not.
Who acts: Reading, sounds, names · What happens: start, glue, not do · To what, where: sounds
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 (Reading, sounds, names), 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 | Reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 starts | nsubj |
| 2 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sounds | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sounds | det |
| 5 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 starts | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 starts | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 glue | mark |
| 8 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 glue | nsubj |
| 9 | glue | glue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 starts | advcl |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 glue | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 do | cc |
| 12 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 glue | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 do | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 starts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | Reading | the sounds | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | glue | infinitive | sounds | together property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not do | present | names | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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