i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 8
Not every silent letter used to be spoken.
Who acts: silent letter · What happens: use, speak · 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 (silent letter), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 letter | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 letter | det |
| 3 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 letter | amod |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | nsubj |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spoken | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 spoken | aux:pass |
| 8 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 used | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | 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 | use | past | every silent letter | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive · passive | every silent letter not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V» |
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:8.
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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