Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 4

Say /k/ /a/ /t/ faster and faster and it becomes «cat»; say «see-ay-tee» as fast as you like and it never turns into «cat».

Who acts: sound, you · What happens: say, become, see, like, not turn · To what, where: k, cat, ay · 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 (sound, you), 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	Say	Say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 becomes	advcl
2	/	/	PUNCT	_	3 k	punct
3	k	k	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Say	obj
4	/	/	PUNCT	_	3 k	punct
5	/	/	SYM	_	3 k	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 k	conj
7	/	/	PUNCT	_	9 t	punct
8	/	/	SYM	_	7 /	punct
9	t	t	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 k	conj
10	/	/	SYM	_	9 t	punct
11	faster	faster	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Say	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 faster	cc
13	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 faster	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 becomes	cc
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 becomes	nsubj
16	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 cat	punct
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 becomes	xcomp
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 cat	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 »	punct
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
22	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 say	goeswith
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 ay	punct
25	ay	ay	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 ay	punct
27	tee	tee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 »	amod
28	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cat	appos
29	as	as	ADV	_	30 fast	advmod
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 say	advmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 like	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 like	nsubj
33	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 fast	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 turns	cc
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 turns	nsubj
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 turns	advmod
37	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 say	conj
38	into	into	ADP	_	40 cat	case
39	«	«	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cat	det
40	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turns	obl
41	»	»	PUNCT	_	40 cat	punct
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	infinitive	sound not said here	k and t	faster property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent k=Topic
2	become	present	sound	cat		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	sound not said here		fast property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	see in a quote	infinitive		ay		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ay=Stimulus
5	like	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	not turn	present	sound		into « cat result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cat=Result

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:4.

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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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