Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 19

«ow» can say /ow/ as in «cow» or /oa/ as in «snow»; the sentence tells you which.

Who acts: ow, sentence · What happens: say, tell · To what, where: you · 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 (ow, sentence), 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 ow	punct
2	ow	ow	X	_	5 say	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 ow	punct
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	/	/	SYM	_	7 ow	punct
7	ow	ow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	conj
8	/	/	SYM	_	7 ow	punct
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 cow	case
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 cow	case
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	12 cow	punct
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 cow	punct
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 oa	cc
15	/	/	SYM	_	16 oa	punct
16	oa	oa	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 cow	appos
17	/	/	SYM	_	16 oa	punct
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 snow	case
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 snow	case
20	«	«	PUNCT	_	21 snow	punct
21	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 oa	nmod
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	21 snow	punct
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tells	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sentence	det
25	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tells	nsubj
26	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tells	iobj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 tells	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	ow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present	the sentence		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Topic

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:19.

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): R6-punct-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/19/