Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 9

In England, Year 1 children (about six years old) do the phonics screening check: they read 40 words to a teacher, half real and half made-up.

Who acts: Year children, children · What happens: do, read, make up · To what, where: screening check, England, 40 words, teacher

This is a sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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 (Year children, children), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 England	case
2	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 do	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 England	punct
4	Year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 children	compound
5	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Year	flat
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 do	nsubj
7	(	(	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 six	advmod
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 old	obl:unmarked
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 children	amod
12	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
13	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 check	det
15	phonics	phonic	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 screening	compound
16	screening	screening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 check	compound
17	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 read	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 read	nsubj
20	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 do	parataxis
21	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 words	nummod
22	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 read	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 teacher	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 teacher	det
25	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 read	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 real	punct
27	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	28 real	advmod
28	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 read	parataxis
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 half	cc
30	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	28 real	conj
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 real	conj
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 up	punct
33	up	up	ADP	_	31 made	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	do	present	Year children	the screening check		England	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Eventuality
2	read	past	children = child	40 words	a teacher		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to teacher=Recipient
3	make up	participle	children = child not said here				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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