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title: Noah says «suh-tuh-o-puh» and gets «sutop», a word that does not exi… — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics
description: Noah says «suh-tuh-o-puh» and gets «sutop», a word that does not exist, because every «uh» is an extra sound that is not in the word. Who acts: Noah, word, uh, extra sound. A sentence of the lesson «Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 4

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Noah says «suh-tuh-o-puh» and gets «sutop», a word that does not exist, because every «uh» is an extra sound that is not in the word.

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**Who acts:** Noah, word, uh, extra sound · **What happens:** say, get, not exist, be, not be · **To what, where:** sutop, extra sound, 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 (Noah, word, uh, extra sound), 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:4
# text = Noah says «suh-tuh-o-puh» and gets «sutop», a word that does not exist, because every «uh» is an extra sound that is not in 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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Noah	Noah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	«	«	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
4	suh	suh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
6	tuh	tuh	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
8	o	o	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	puh	puh	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	sutop	sutop	NOUN	NN	_	13	obj	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
21	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	because	because	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=ADP	33	mark	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj
27	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
28	uh	uh	NOUN	NN	_	33	nsubj	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	acl:relcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Noah |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | present | Noah *not said here* | sutop |  |  |  | a word *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sutop=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **exist** | present · do-support | a word |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | every uh | a extra sound |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | a extra sound |  |  | the word |  |  | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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