i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 13

«February» has an r that many people skip in speech, so say «Feb-RU-ary» in your head when you write it.

Who acts: February, many people, you · What happens: have, skip, say, write · To what, where: r, speech, ary, head · 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 (February, many people, you), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 February	punct
2	February	February	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 February	punct
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 r	det
6	r	r	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 skip	obj
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 people	amod
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 skip	nsubj
10	skip	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 r	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 speech	case
12	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 skip	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 say	advmod
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 ary	punct
17	Feb	February	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	19 RU	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 Feb	punct
19	RU	RU	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 »	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ary	punct
21	ary	ary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	obj
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 ary	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 write	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 write	nsubj
28	write	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 say	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 write	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	February	a r		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent r=Patient
2	skip	present	many people	a r	speech	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme in speech=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	infinitive		ary	your head	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent ary=Theme in head=Manner
4	write	present	you	r		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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:13.

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. 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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