Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 16
The /oa/ sound has several spellings: oa (boat), ow (snow), o-e (home), oe (toe).
Who acts: oa sound · What happens: have · To what, where: several spellings
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 (oa sound), 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 | 5 sound | det |
| 2 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| 3 | oa | oa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | compound |
| 4 | / | / | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spellings | amod |
| 8 | spellings | spelling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 has | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 oa | punct |
| 10 | oa | oa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spellings | appos |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 boat | punct |
| 12 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 oa | appos |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 boat | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ow | punct |
| 15 | ow | ow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 oa | conj |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 snow | punct |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ow | appos |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 17 snow | punct |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 e | punct |
| 20 | o | o | NOUN | _ | 22 e | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 e | punct |
| 22 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spellings | conj |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 24 home | punct |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 e | appos |
| 25 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 24 home | punct |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 oe | punct |
| 27 | oe | oe | NOUN | _ | 8 spellings | conj |
| 28 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 29 toe | punct |
| 29 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 oe | appos |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 29 toe | punct |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the oa sound | several spellings and o e and oe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient |
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:16.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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