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title: Slow sounding-out is a normal early stage; re-reading the same easy… — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics
description: Slow sounding-out is a normal early stage; re-reading the same easy book builds speed until words are known at a glance. Who acts: Slow sounding out, re-reading. A sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 23

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Slow sounding-out is a normal early stage; re-reading the same easy book builds speed until words are known at a glance.

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**Who acts:** Slow sounding out, re-reading · **What happens:** be, re-read, build, know · **To what, where:** normal early stage, same easy book, speed, words, glance

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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 (Slow sounding out, re-reading), 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:23
# text = Slow sounding-out is a normal early stage; re-reading the same easy book builds speed until words are known at a glance.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	sounding	sounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
4	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	stage	stage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=9:punct
11	re-reading	re-read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	csubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	builds	build	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj
17	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | Slow sounding out | a normal early stage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **re-read** | gerund |  | the same easy book |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **build** | present | re-reading | speed |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset speed=Product |
| 4 | **know** | present · passive |  | words |  | a glance |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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:23`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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