--- title: Made-up «alien words» like «zib» are read on purpose: they show a ch… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics description: Made-up «alien words» like «zib» are read on purpose: they show a child is really reading the sounds and not guessing a word they remember. Who acts: Schools, child. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schools, 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:11 # text = Made-up «alien words» like «zib» are read on purpose: they show a child is really reading the sounds and not guessing a word they remember. # 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): R4-particle ×1 1 Made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=1:compound 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 alien alien ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 zib zib X GW _ 6 nmod _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 read read VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 22 really really ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 reading read VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 guessing guess VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 remember remember VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make up** | participle | | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **read** | present · passive | | Made alien words like zib | | purpose | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 3 | **show** | present | Schools *= school* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **read** | present · progressive | a child | the sounds | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic | | 5 | **not** **guess** | gerund | a child *not said here* | a word | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 6 | **remember** | present | Schools *= school* | a word *not said here* | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent word=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](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:11`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/10/) - next →: [Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/)