--- title: «sh» in «ship» is two letters making one sound, a digraph; «igh» in… — Sounds and letters: how phonics starts · tree and pragmatics description: «sh» in «ship» is two letters making one sound, a digraph; «igh» in «night» is three letters making one sound, a trigraph. Who acts: sh, two letters, igh, three letters. 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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 (sh, two letters, igh, three letters), 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:7 # text = «sh» in «ship» is two letters making one sound, a digraph; «igh» in «night» is three letters making one sound, a trigraph. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 sh sh NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 digraph digraph NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 igh igh NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 « « PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 » » PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 28 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 trigraph trigraph NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:conj 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **is a** | present | sh in ship | two letters | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | gerund | two letters *not said here* | one sound and a digraph | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | | 3 | **is a** | present | igh in night | three letters | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | gerund | three letters *not said here* | one sound | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | 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:7`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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