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title: Audiobooks build vocabulary, understanding and a love of stories, bu… — Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home · tree and pragmatics
description: Audiobooks build vocabulary, understanding and a love of stories, but they do not practise reading printed words, so children use both. Who acts: Audiobooks, vocabulary, children. A sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» of the english course of Mova's primary sch
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# Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home, sentence 18

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Audiobooks build vocabulary, understanding and a love of stories, but they do not practise reading printed words, so children use both.

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**Who acts:** Audiobooks, vocabulary, children · **What happens:** build, not practise, read, print, use, love · **To what, where:** vocabulary, printed words, both, stories

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Reading for pleasure and the reading book at home» 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 (Audiobooks, vocabulary, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.lesson:18
# text = Audiobooks build vocabulary, understanding and a love of stories, but they do not practise reading printed words, so children use both.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 016-reading-for-pleasure-and-the-reading-book-at-home.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Audiobooks	audiobook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	build	build	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	vocabulary	vocabulary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	understanding	understanding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	practise	practise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	reading	read	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **build** | present | Audiobooks | vocabulary and understanding and a love of stories |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vocabulary=Product |
| 2 | **not** **practise** | present · do-support | vocabulary |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **read** | gerund | vocabulary *not said here* | printed words |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 4 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** | present | children | both |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient |
| 6 | **love** |  |  | stories |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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