Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 9
Schools teach the sounds in a planned order, in stages called phases or sets.
Who acts: Schools, stages · What happens: teach, plan, call · To what, where: sounds, planned order, phases · 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 (Schools, stages), 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 | Schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 teach | nsubj |
| 2 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sounds | det |
| 4 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 teach | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 order | det |
| 7 | planned | plan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 order | amod |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teach | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stages | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 stages | case |
| 11 | stages | stage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 teach | obl |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stages | acl |
| 13 | phases | phase | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 sets | cc |
| 15 | sets | set | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 phases | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Schools | the sounds | a planned order | in stages | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sound=Recipient | ||
| 2 | plan | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | call | participle | stages not said here | phases or sets | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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:9.
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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