Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 13
The trick is to learn words with the same sound in groups: an «igh» family (high, light, night), an «ew» family (new, flew, chew), a «ue» family (blue, glue, true).
Who acts: trick · What happens: be
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 (trick), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trick | det |
| 2 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learn | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 learn | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 learn | mark |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 learn | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 sound | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sound | amod |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 words | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 groups | case |
| 12 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sound | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 family | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 family | det |
| 15 | « | « | X | _ | 18 family | compound |
| 16 | igh | igh | X | _ | 15 « | goeswith |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 16 igh | punct |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learn | obl |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 high | punct |
| 20 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 family | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 light | punct |
| 22 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 high | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 night | punct |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 high | conj |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 high | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ew | punct |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 ew | det |
| 28 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ew | amod |
| 29 | ew | ew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 family | compound |
| 30 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 family | punct |
| 31 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 family | conj |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 new | punct |
| 33 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 flew | amod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 flew | punct |
| 35 | flew | flew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ew | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 chew | punct |
| 37 | chew | chew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flew | conj |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 35 flew | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ue | punct |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 ue | det |
| 41 | « | « | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 ue | amod |
| 42 | ue | ue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ew | conj |
| 43 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 44 family | punct |
| 44 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ue | conj |
| 45 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 46 blue | punct |
| 46 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 ue | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 glue | punct |
| 48 | glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 blue | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 true | punct |
| 50 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 blue | conj |
| 51 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 46 blue | punct |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the trick | a « family and ew family obl; learn 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:004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.lesson:13.
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, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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