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title: «Mum» (Britain) and «mom» (USA) are both correct spellings in their… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics
description: «Mum» (Britain) and «mom» (USA) are both correct spellings in their own country. Who acts: Mum. 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 clause.
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# Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 27

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«Mum» (Britain) and «mom» (USA) are both correct spellings in their own country.

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**Who acts:** Mum · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** correct spellings, own country

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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 (Mum), 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:27
# text = «Mum» (Britain) and «mom» (USA) are both correct spellings in their own country.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:NFP:_
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
9	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	both	both	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	spellings	spelling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **is a** | present | Mum and mom | correct spellings |  | Mum's own country |  |  | tree rules |

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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:27`.

**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): R8-pos-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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