Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 8
Ruby thought that was cheating, but the letters are simply working as a team.
Who acts: Ruby, that, letters · What happens: think, cheat, work · 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 (Ruby, that, letters), 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 | Ruby | Ruby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 cheating | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cheating | aux |
| 5 | cheating | cheat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 working | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 working | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 letters | det |
| 9 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 working | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 working | aux |
| 11 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 12 working | advmod |
| 12 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 team | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 team | det |
| 15 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 working | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Ruby | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cheat | past · progressive | that | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | work | present · progressive | the letters | as a team; simply property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as team=Attribute |
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:8.
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 ×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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