i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 19
Many ei words make the /ay/ sound: eight, weigh, neighbour; the rhyme does not cover them.
Who acts: Many words, rhyme · What happens: make, not cover · To what, where: ay sound, words
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 (Many words, 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 2 | ei | ei | X | _ | 3 words | nmod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 6 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 7 ay | punct |
| 7 | ay | ay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | compound |
| 8 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 9 sound | punct |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 eight | punct |
| 11 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sound | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 weigh | punct |
| 13 | weigh | weigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 neighbour | punct |
| 15 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 cover | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rhyme | det |
| 18 | rhyme | rhyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cover | nsubj |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 cover | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 cover | advmod |
| 21 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cover | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Many words ei | the ay sound and neighbour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | ||||
| 2 | not cover | present · do-support | the rhyme | words = word | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |
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:19.
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.
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