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title: Every letter has a name (ay, bee, see) and a sound (/a/, /b/, /k/);… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics
description: Every letter has a name (ay, bee, see) and a sound (/a/, /b/, /k/); for reading, the sound comes first. Who acts: letter, sound. 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 every claus
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# Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 15

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Every letter has a name (ay, bee, see) and a sound (/a/, /b/, /k/); for reading, the sound comes first.

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**Who acts:** letter, sound · **What happens:** have, see, come · **To what, where:** name

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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 (letter, sound), 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:15
# text = Every letter has a name (ay, bee, see) and a sound (/a/, /b/, /k/); for reading, the sound comes first.
# 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 ×1
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ay	ay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bee	bee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	19	punct	_	_
17	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	15	appos	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct
21	/	/	SYM	,	_	35	cc	_	_
22	b	b	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	/	/	SYM	,	_	26	cc	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	/	/	SYM	,	_	26	cc	_	_
26	k	k	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	advmod	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | every letter | a name and a sound |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | present | the sound |  |  |  |  | for reading; first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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 ×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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