i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 0
The old rhyme says «i before e except after c».
Who acts: old rhyme · What happens: say, e · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «i before e, silent letters and other famous traps» 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 (old rhyme), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rhyme | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rhyme | amod |
| 3 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 6 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 e | nsubj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 e | case |
| 8 | e | e | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 says | ccomp |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 11 c | case |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 c | case |
| 11 | c | c | X | _ | 8 e | advmod |
| 12 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the old rhyme | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | e in a quote | present | the old rhyme = rhyme | 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, 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:010-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps.lesson:0.
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): 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.
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