--- title: When Miss Adebayo holds up the snake card and hisses «sssss», the sn… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics description: When Miss Adebayo holds up the snake card and hisses «sssss», the snake is showing the sound; «ess» is only the letter's name. Who acts: Miss, snake, ess. 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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 (Miss, snake, ess), 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:2 # text = When Miss Adebayo holds up the snake card and hisses «sssss», the snake is showing the sound; «ess» is only the letter's name. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 Miss miss PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 Adebayo Adebayo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ _ 4 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 card card NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 hisses hiss VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 12 sssss sssss NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 showing show VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 ess ess NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold up** | present | Miss | the snake card | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot card=Theme | | 2 | **hiss** | present | Miss *not said here* | sssss | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sssss=Topic | | 3 | **show** | present · progressive | the snake | the sound | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sound=Recipient | | 4 | **is a** | present | ess | the letter's name | | | | | tree rules | 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:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. 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