--- title: Decoding (turning letters into words) and comprehension (understandi… — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics description: Decoding (turning letters into words) and comprehension (understanding what you read) are two different skills. Who acts: Decoding, comprehension, you. 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 --- [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/24/) [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/) / 24 # Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 24 Decoding (turning letters into words) and comprehension (understanding what you read) are two different skills. **Who acts:** Decoding, comprehension, you · **What happens:** turn, understand, read, be · **To what, where:** letters, words, two different skills · **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 (Decoding, comprehension, you), 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:24 # text = Decoding (turning letters into words) and comprehension (understanding what you read) are two different skills. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Decoding decoding NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 2 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 3 turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 acl _ _ 4 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 7 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 comprehension comprehension NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 11 understanding understand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 read read VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 16 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 skills skill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | gerund | Decoding and comprehension *not said here* | letters | | words | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent letter=Theme into word=Trajectory | | 2 | **understand** | gerund | comprehension *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **read** | present | you | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 4 | **is a** | present | Decoding and comprehension | two different skills | | | | | tree rules | 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:24`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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