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title: Saying the word slowly, in parts, keeps every letter. — Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Saying the word slowly, in parts, keeps every letter. Who acts: Saying. A sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 5–6 (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 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 10

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Saying the word slowly, in parts, keeps every letter.

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**Who acts:** Saying · **What happens:** say, keep · **To what, where:** word, parts, letter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 5–6 (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 (Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson:10
# text = Saying the word slowly, in parts, keeps every letter.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 014-words-to-know-years-5-6.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 ×1
1	Saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the word |  | parts |  | slowly *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in part=Manner |
| 2 | **keep** | present | Saying | every letter |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=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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**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 ×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.

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