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title: Fluent readers still use phonics, fast and silently, and slow down t… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics
description: Fluent readers still use phonics, fast and silently, and slow down to it when they meet a hard new word. Who acts: Fluent readers, readers. 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 
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# Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 25

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Fluent readers still use phonics, fast and silently, and slow down to it when they meet a hard new word.

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**Who acts:** Fluent readers, readers · **What happens:** use, slow down, meet · **To what, where:** phonics, child, hard new word

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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 (Fluent readers, readers), 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:25
# text = Fluent readers still use phonics, fast and silently, and slow down to it when they meet a hard new word.
# 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): no change
1	Fluent	fluent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	phonics	phonics	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	slow	slow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **use** | present | Fluent readers | phonics |  |  | still |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phonics=Patient |
| 2 | **slow down** | present | Fluent readers *not said here* |  | child |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **meet** | present | readers *= reader* | a hard new word |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Co-Agent |

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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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**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:25`.

**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): no change. **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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