--- title: Schools teach sounds in a fixed order (phases or sets), starting wit… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics description: Schools teach sounds in a fixed order (phases or sets), starting with s, a, t, p, i, n, so children can read real words from the first week. Who acts: Schools, i. 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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, i), 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:22 # text = Schools teach sounds in a fixed order (phases or sets), starting with s, a, t, p, i, n, so children can read real words from the first week. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 9 phases phase NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 appos _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sets set NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 9 punct _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 starting start VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 s s NOUN NN _ 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 t t NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 22 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 24 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 26 n and CCONJ CC Abbr=Yes 31 cc _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 32 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 37 amod _ _ 37 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | Schools | sounds | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sound=Recipient | | 2 | **fix** | participle | | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **start** | gerund | Schools *not said here* | | | | | with s | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with s=Subeventuality | | 4 | **read** | can | i | real words | | | week | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | 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:22`. **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 ×4, 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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