i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 16
«i before e except after c» works mainly for the /ee/ sound: believe, field, receive, ceiling.
Who acts: i e · What happens: work, believe, field, receive, ceil
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 (i e), 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 | _ | 4 e | punct |
| 2 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 e | flat |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 e | case |
| 4 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 works | nsubj |
| 5 | except | except | ADP | _ | 7 c | case |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 c | case |
| 7 | c | C | X | _ | 9 works | mark |
| 8 | » | » | X | _ | 7 c | goeswith |
| 9 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 9 works | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 ee | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 13 | / | / | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ee | amod |
| 14 | ee | ee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 works | obl |
| 15 | / | / | SYM | _ | 16 sound | cc |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ee | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 believe | punct |
| 18 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 works | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 field | punct |
| 20 | field | field | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 believe | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 receive | punct |
| 22 | receive | receive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 believe | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ceiling | punct |
| 24 | ceiling | ceil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 believe | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | i e | for / ee / the sound; mainly property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ee=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | believe | infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | field | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | receive | infinitive | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | ceil | gerund | 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:16.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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.
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