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title: Say words slowly when you spell them. — Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Say words slowly when you spell them. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 12

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Say words slowly when you spell them.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, spell · **To what, where:** words · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:12
# text = Say words slowly when you spell them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 013-words-to-know-years-3-4.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	Say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	spell	spell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | words |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **spell** | present | you | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=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:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:12`.

**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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