i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 23
«Wednesday» comes from «Woden's day» and keeps a d most people do not say; saying «Wed-nes-day» in your head helps you spell it.
Who acts: Wednesday, most people, Wed nes, you · What happens: come, keep, not say, say, help, spell · To what, where: d · 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 (Wednesday, most people, Wed nes, 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 Wednesday | punct |
| 2 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wednesday | punct |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 7 | Woden | Woden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Woden | case |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 10 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 keeps | cc |
| 12 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 comes | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 d | det |
| 14 | d | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 keeps | obj |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 people | amod |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 say | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 say | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 say | advmod |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 d | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 saying | punct |
| 21 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 comes | advcl |
| 22 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 nes | punct |
| 23 | Wed | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 nes | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Wed | punct |
| 25 | nes | ne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 helps | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 nes | punct |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nes | compound |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 nes | punct |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 head | case |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 head | nmod:poss |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nes | nmod |
| 32 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 saying | ccomp |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 spell | nsubj |
| 34 | spell | spell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 helps | xcomp |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 spell | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Wednesday | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | Wednesday not said here | a d | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent d=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | most people | a d not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent d=Topic | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | Wednesday not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | help | present | Wed nes in your head | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | spell | infinitive | you | d | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: 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:23.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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