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title: First come s, a, t, p, i, n, because with just those six a child can… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics
description: First come s, a, t, p, i, n, because with just those six a child can already read «sat», «pin», «tap» and «nap». Who acts: you, i, child. A sentence of the lesson «Sounds and letters: how phonics starts» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 10

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First come s, a, t, p, i, n, because with just those six a child can already read «sat», «pin», «tap» and «nap».

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**Who acts:** you, i, child · **What happens:** come, n, read, sat

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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 (you, i, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:001-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts.lesson:10
# text = First come s, a, t, p, i, n, because with just those six a child can already read «sat», «pin», «tap» and «nap».
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 001-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
2	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	s	s	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
11	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	n	n	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	already	already	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	sat	sat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
27	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
29	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	pin	pin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	tap	tap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
38	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **n** |  | i |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | can | a child |  |  |  |  | with that six | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sat** *in a quote* | infinitive | a child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:10`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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