i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 21
Common silent-letter groups: kn (knife, knee), wr (write, wrong), mb (lamb, climb, thumb), gn (gnome).
What happens: write
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 | Common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 groups | amod |
| 2 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 letter | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 silent | punct |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 groups | compound |
| 5 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 kn | punct |
| 7 | kn | kn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 groups | appos |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 knife | punct |
| 9 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kn | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 knee | punct |
| 11 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knife | conj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 9 knife | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wr | punct |
| 14 | wr | wr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kn | conj |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 write | punct |
| 16 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 wr | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wrong | punct |
| 18 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 write | parataxis |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 write | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mb | punct |
| 21 | mb | mb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kn | conj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 lamb | punct |
| 23 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mb | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 climb | punct |
| 25 | climb | climb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lamb | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thumb | punct |
| 27 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 climb | obj |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 lamb | punct |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gn | punct |
| 30 | gn | gn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kn | conj |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 gnome | punct |
| 32 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gn | appos |
| 33 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 gnome | punct |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 groups | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | infinitive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:21.
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 ×3. 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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