Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 18
Most English spelling is regular; only a small number of very common words are odd.
Who acts: Most English spelling, small number · What happens: be
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 (Most English spelling, small number), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 spelling | amod |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spelling | amod |
| 3 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 regular | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 regular | cop |
| 5 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 odd | punct |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 number | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 number | amod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 odd | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 words | case |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 common | advmod |
| 13 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 words | amod |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 odd | cop |
| 16 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 regular | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 regular | 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 | is | present | Most English spelling | regular property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a small number of common words | odd property | tree rules |
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:18.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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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