Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 12
Say words slowly when you spell them.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, spell · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» 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 (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 | root | root |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Say | obj |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 1 Say | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 spell | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 spell | nsubj |
| 6 | spell | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | advcl |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spell | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | words | slowly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | spell | present | you | words = word | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=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:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:12.
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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