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title: Reading is blending: you see «stop», say the sounds /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/… — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics
description: Reading is blending: you see «stop», say the sounds /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/ and push them together into the word. Who acts: Reading, you, sounds. 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
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# Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 1

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Reading is blending: you see «stop», say the sounds /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/ and push them together into the word.

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**Who acts:** Reading, you, sounds · **What happens:** be, see, stop, say, push · **To what, where:** Reading, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you, sounds), 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:1
# text = Reading is blending: you see «stop», say the sounds /s/ /t/ /o/ /p/ and push them together into the word.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:aux
3	blending	blend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	15	punct	_	_
15	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_
17	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	18	punct	_	_
18	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_
20	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	18	nmod	_	_
21	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	_
22	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_
23	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	24	punct	_	_
24	p	p	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
33	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Reading |  |  |  |  | blend *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the sounds and s and t |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **push** | infinitive | the sounds and s and t *not said here* | Reading |  | the word |  | together *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into word=Destination |

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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:1`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **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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