i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 3
Many ei words say /ay/: eight, weigh, neighbour.
Who acts: Many ei words · What happens: say · To what, where: ay · 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 (Many ei words), 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 | Foreign=Yes | 3 words | compound |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | / | / | SYM | _ | 6 ay | cc |
| 6 | ay | ay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 say | obj |
| 7 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 6 ay | punct |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 eight | punct |
| 9 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 ay | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weigh | punct |
| 11 | weigh | weigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ay | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 neighbour | punct |
| 13 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ay | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Many ei words | ay and weigh and neighbour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ay=Topic |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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