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title: Long words are read in chunks called syllables, the beats you can cl… — Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check · tree and pragmatics
description: Long words are read in chunks called syllables, the beats you can clap: sand-wich, pic-nic, fan-tas-tic. Who acts: chunks, 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 pragmatics of every cla
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# Blending, segmenting and the Year 1 check, sentence 6

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Long words are read in chunks called syllables, the beats you can clap: sand-wich, pic-nic, fan-tas-tic.

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**Who acts:** chunks, you · **What happens:** read, call, clap · **To what, where:** Long words, chunks, syllables, beats · **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 (chunks, 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:6
# text = Long words are read in chunks called syllables, the beats you can clap: sand-wich, pic-nic, fan-tas-tic.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	chunks	chunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	syllables	syllable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	beats	beat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	appos	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	clap	clap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	wich	wich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	pic	pic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	nic	nic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
26	tas	tas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
28	tic	tic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | present · passive |  | Long words |  | chunks |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | participle | chunks *not said here* | syllables |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clap** | can | you | the beats *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beat=Theme |

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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:6`.

**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 ×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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