--- title: ★★★ Tom says: «light has five letters, so it has five sounds». How m… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ Tom says: «light has five letters, so it has five sounds». How many sounds does «light» really have? Test 12 of lesson 1 «Sounds and letters: how phonics starts» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/t12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Sounds and letters: how phonics starts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/) / t12 # Test 12 · Sounds and letters: how phonics starts ★★★ Tom says: «light has five letters, so it has five sounds». How many sounds does «light» really have? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★, light, many sounds · **What happens:** say, have · **To what, where:** five letters, five sounds · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 12 of lesson 1 «Sounds and letters: how phonics starts» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/#t12). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* ★★★ Tom says: «light has five letters, so it has five sounds». ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts:t12:1 # text = ★★★ Tom says: «light has five letters, so it has five sounds». 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ★ | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | light | five letters | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | light | five sounds | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* How many sounds does «light» really have? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts:t12:2 # text = How many sounds does «light» really have? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 8 really really ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present · do-support | many sounds | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 5: l, i, g, h, t ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts:t12:o1:1 # text = 5: l, i, g, h, t 1 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 l l NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 g G NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 h H NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 t t NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} 4: l, i, gh, t ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts:t12:o2:1 # text = 4: l, i, gh, t 1 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 l l NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 gh gh NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 t t NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} 3: l, igh, t ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts:t12:o3:1 # text = 3: l, igh, t 1 3 3 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 l l NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 igh igh INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 t t NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 2: li, ght ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts:t12:o4:1 # text = 2: li, ght 1 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 3 li li NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 ght ght NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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