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title: Some words hide letters that fast speech drops. — Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some words hide letters that fast speech drops. Who acts: words, fast speech. 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 8

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Some words hide letters that fast speech drops.

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**Who acts:** words, fast speech · **What happens:** hide, drop · **To what, where:** letters

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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 (words, fast speech), 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:8
# text = Some words hide letters that fast speech drops.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:amod
7	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound
8	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **hide** | present | some words | letters |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 2 | **drop** |  | fast speech | letters |  |  |  |  | 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:014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson:8`.

**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, R7-rel-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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