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title: Children who speak another language at home sort out the sounds fine… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics
description: Children who speak another language at home sort out the sounds fine; a home language does not hold back English reading. Who acts: Children, home language. 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 t
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# Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 26

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Children who speak another language at home sort out the sounds fine; a home language does not hold back English reading.

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**Who acts:** Children, home language · **What happens:** speak, sort out, not hold back · **To what, where:** language, home, sounds, English reading · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Children, home language), 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:26
# text = Children who speak another language at home sort out the sounds fine; a home language does not hold back English reading.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	sort	sort	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
20	back	back	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
21	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Children | another language |  | home |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sort out** | present | Children | the sounds |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **hold back** | present · do-support | a home language | English reading |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=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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**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:26`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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