Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 17
Many tricky words are old words whose sound changed while the spelling stayed the same.
Who acts: Many tricky words, sound, spelling · What happens: be, change, stay · To what, where: old words
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» 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 tricky words, sound, spelling), 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 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 words | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | cop |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 sound | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 words | acl:relcl |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 stayed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spelling | det |
| 12 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stayed | nsubj |
| 13 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 changed | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 same | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stayed | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 words | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Many tricky words | old words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | past | sound | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stay | past | the spelling | same property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:17.
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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