Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 0
A silent e at the end of a word reaches back over one consonant and makes the vowel say its name: hop becomes hope, kit becomes kite, cub becomes cube.
Who acts: silent e, vowel, hop, kit, cub, e · What happens: reach back, make, say, become, name · To what, where: one consonant, vowel, name, hope, kite, cube · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» 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 e, vowel, hop, kit), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 e | det |
| 2 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 e | amod |
| 3 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reaches | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 e | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 word | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 word | det |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 10 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 reaches | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 consonant | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 consonant | nummod |
| 14 | consonant | consonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reaches | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 makes | cc |
| 16 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reaches | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 vowel | det |
| 18 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 makes | obj |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 makes | xcomp |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 name | nmod:poss |
| 21 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 say | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 becomes | punct |
| 23 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 becomes | nsubj |
| 24 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reaches | conj |
| 25 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 becomes | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 becomes | punct |
| 27 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 becomes | nsubj |
| 28 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reaches | conj |
| 29 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 becomes | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 becomes | punct |
| 31 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 becomes | nsubj |
| 32 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 reaches | conj |
| 33 | cube | cube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 becomes | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reaches | 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 | reach back | present | a silent e at the end of a word | one consonant | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent over consonant=Path | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a silent e at the end of a word not said here | the vowel | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the vowel not said here | e's name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | ||||
| 4 | become | present | hop | hope | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | become | present | kit | kite | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | become | present | cub | cube | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | name | e | nom name «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:004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.lesson:0.
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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