--- title: And a big sister who calls phonics «mid» (teen slang for boring) use… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics description: And a big sister who calls phonics «mid» (teen slang for boring) used it herself, and still does, fast and silently. Who acts: big sister. 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 e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Sounds and letters: how phonics starts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/) / 14 # Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 14 And a big sister who calls phonics «mid» (teen slang for boring) used it herself, and still does, fast and silently. **Who acts:** big sister · **What happens:** call, use · **To what, where:** phonics, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (big sister), 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:14 # text = And a big sister who calls phonics «mid» (teen slang for boring) used it herself, and still does, fast and silently. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 5 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 phonics phonic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 9 mid mid X AFX _ 10 compound _ _ 10 » » PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 12 teen teen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 13 slang slang NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:appos 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 16 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 17 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 17 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 23 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 silently silently ADV RB _ 25 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | a big sister | phonics | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent phonic=Recipient | | 2 | **use** | past | a big sister | word | | | | » *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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. **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:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/13/) - next →: [Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/)