--- title: Accurate decoding means reading every sound in order; guessing means… — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics description: Accurate decoding means reading every sound in order; guessing means saying a word that just looks similar. Who acts: Accurate decoding, guessing, word. 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 th --- [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/22/) [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/) / 22 # Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 22 Accurate decoding means reading every sound in order; guessing means saying a word that just looks similar. **Who acts:** Accurate decoding, guessing, word · **What happens:** means, read, say, look · **To what, where:** sound, order, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Accurate decoding, guessing, word), 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:22 # text = Accurate decoding means reading every sound in order; guessing means saying a word that just looks similar. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Accurate accurate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 decoding decode NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj 5 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 10 guessing guess NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 means means VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 obj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 just just ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 18 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **means** | present | Accurate decoding | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **read** | gerund | Accurate decoding *not said here* | every sound | | order | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic | | 3 | **means** | present | guessing | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | a word | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 5 | **look** | present | a word | | | | | similar *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:22`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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