i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 27
«Neighbour» is the British spelling, with ei for /ay/ and an -our ending; American English writes «neighbor».
Who acts: Neighbour, American English, our · What happens: be, write, end · To what, where: British spelling, neighbor
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 (Neighbour, American English, our), 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 Neighbour | punct |
| 2 | Neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spelling | nsubj |
| 3 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 Neighbour | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spelling | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spelling | det |
| 6 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spelling | amod |
| 7 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ei | punct |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 ei | case |
| 10 | ei | EI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spelling | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 ay | case |
| 12 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 11 for | punct |
| 13 | ay | ay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spelling | obl |
| 14 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 13 ay | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ending | cc |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ending | det |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 an | punct |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ending | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ay | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 writes | punct |
| 21 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 English | amod |
| 22 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 writes | nsubj |
| 23 | writes | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spelling | parataxis |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 25 neighbor | punct |
| 25 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 writes | obj |
| 26 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 25 neighbor | punct |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spelling | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Neighbour | the British spelling | with ei; for ay and our ending | tree rules | |||
| 2 | write | present | American English | neighbor | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | end | our | nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=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:27.
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, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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