--- title: In England, the Year 1 phonics screening check asks a child to read… — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics description: In England, the Year 1 phonics screening check asks a child to read 40 words to a teacher, some real and some made-up. Who acts: Year phonics screening check. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 ch…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/2-blending-segmenting-and-the-year-1-check/) / 20 # Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 20 In England, the Year 1 phonics screening check asks a child to read 40 words to a teacher, some real and some made-up. **Who acts:** Year phonics screening check · **What happens:** ask, read, make up · **To what, where:** child, England, 40 words, teacher 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 (Year phonics screening check), 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:20 # text = In England, the Year 1 phonics screening check asks a child to read 40 words to a teacher, some real and some made-up. # 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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 6 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 flat _ _ 7 phonics phonic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 compound _ _ 8 screening screening NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 15 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 det _ _ 22 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 22 conj _ _ 25 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:acl 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=25:compound 28 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | the Year phonics screening check | | a child | England | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent child=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **read** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Year phonics screening check *not said here* | 40 words | a teacher | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Topic to teacher=Recipient | | 3 | **make up** | participle | the Year phonics screening check *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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. **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:20`. **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): R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×2. **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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