--- title: Say /k/ /a/ /t/ faster and faster and it becomes «cat»; say «see-ay-… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics description: Say /k/ /a/ /t/ faster and faster and it becomes «cat»; say «see-ay-tee» as fast as you like and it never turns into «cat». Who acts: sound, you. 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 pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Sounds and letters: how phonics starts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/) / 4 # Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, sentence 4 Say /k/ /a/ /t/ faster and faster and it becomes «cat»; say «see-ay-tee» as fast as you like and it never turns into «cat». **Who acts:** sound, you · **What happens:** say, become, see, like, not turn · **To what, where:** k, cat, ay · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (sound, you), 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:4 # text = Say /k/ /a/ /t/ faster and faster and it becomes «cat»; say «see-ay-tee» as fast as you like and it never turns into «cat». # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Say Say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 2 / / PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_ 3 k k PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 / / PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_ 5 / / SYM SYM _ 3 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 conj _ _ 7 / / PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_ 8 / / SYM SYM _ 7 punct _ _ 9 t t NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 10 / / SYM SYM _ 9 punct _ _ 11 faster faster ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 1 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 23 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 goeswith _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 25 ay ay NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ _ 27 tee tee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 29 as as ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 37 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:conj 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 « « DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:obj 41 » » PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | sound *not said here* | k and t | | | | faster *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent k=Topic | | 2 | **become** | present | sound | cat | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | sound *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | | ay | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ay=Stimulus | | 5 | **like** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **not** **turn** | present | sound | | | | | into « cat *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into cat=Result | 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:4`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/3/) - next →: [Sounds and letters: how phonics starts, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/1-sounds-and-letters-how-phonics-starts/)