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title: Reading and spelling are the same skill going in two directions. — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics
description: Reading and spelling are the same skill going in two directions. Who acts: Reading, same skill. A sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 0

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Reading and spelling are the same skill going in two directions.

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**Who acts:** Reading, same skill · **What happens:** be, go in · **To what, where:** same skill, two directions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» 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 (Reading, same skill), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.lesson:0
# text = Reading and spelling are the same skill going in two directions.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Reading and spelling | the same skill |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go in** | gerund | the same skill *not said here* | two directions |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:002-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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