Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 14
In a split digraph (a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e) the silent e makes the vowel say its name: hop/hope, kit/kite, cub/cube.
Who acts: i, e, vowel · What happens: e, make, say, name · To what, where: vowel, split digraph, name · 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 (i, e, vowel), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 digraph | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 digraph | det |
| 3 | split | split | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 digraph | compound |
| 4 | digraph | digraph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 makes | obl |
| 5 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 e | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 e | det |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 e | punct |
| 8 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 digraph | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 e-e | punct |
| 10 | e-e | e-e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 e | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 digraph | punct |
| 12 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 e | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 e | punct |
| 14 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 makes | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 e | punct |
| 16 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 18 e | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 e | punct |
| 18 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 e | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 e | punct |
| 20 | u | u | PUNCT | _ | 22 e | punct |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 e | punct |
| 22 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 e | parataxis |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 22 e | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 e | det |
| 25 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 e | amod |
| 26 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 makes | nsubj |
| 27 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 vowel | det |
| 29 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 makes | obj |
| 30 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 makes | xcomp |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 name | nmod:poss |
| 32 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 say | obj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 makes | punct |
| 34 | hop/hope | hop/hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 name | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 kit/kite | punct |
| 36 | kit/kite | kit/kite | NOUN | _ | 34 hop/hope | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 cub/cube | punct |
| 38 | cub/cube | cub/cube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hop/hope | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 makes | 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 | e | i | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | e and e | the vowel | a split digraph | 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 | 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:14.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4. 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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