i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 15

The wise approach: use the full rhyme only for /ee/, learn silent letters in groups (kn, wr, mb, gn), and keep a short list of the famous oddballs.

What happens: use, learn, keep, list · To what, where: full rhyme, silent letters, groups, short list, famous oddballs

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: 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 approach	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 approach	amod
3	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 approach	punct
5	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 approach	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rhyme	det
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rhyme	amod
8	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obj
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 ee	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 ee	case
11	/	/	PUNCT	_	10 for	punct
12	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	obl
13	/	/	PUNCT	_	12 ee	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 learn	punct
15	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 use	conj
16	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 letters	amod
17	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learn	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 groups	case
19	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 learn	obl
20	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 kn	punct
21	kn	kn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 groups	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wr	punct
23	wr	wr	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kn	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mb	punct
25	mb	mb	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kn	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gn	punct
27	gn	gn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kn	conj
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 kn	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 keep	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 keep	cc
31	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 use	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 list	det
33	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 list	amod
34	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 keep	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 oddballs	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 oddballs	det
37	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 oddballs	amod
38	oddballs	oddball	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 list	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 approach	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	infinitive	the full rhyme		for ee	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent rhyme=Theme for ee=Eventuality
2	learn	infinitive	silent letters	groups		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic
3	keep	infinitive	a short list of the famous oddballs			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme
4	list		the famous oddballs			nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:15.

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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