Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 3

Tom in Newcastle grumbles that «boat», «snow», «home» and «toe» all say /oa/ and are all spelled differently; he is right, and it is still learnable.

Who acts: Tom, boat · What happens: grumble, «, say, spell, be · To what, where: « toe · 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 (Tom, boat), 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grumbles	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Newcastle	case
3	Newcastle	Newcastle	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	nmod
4	grumbles	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 say	mark
6	«	«	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 «	nsubj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 boat	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 »	punct
10	«	«	CCONJ	_	12 »	cc
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 »	compound
12	»	»	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boat	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 »	punct
14	«	«	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 grumbles	acl:relcl
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 «	advmod
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 home	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 toe	cc
18	«	«	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 toe	amod
19	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 «	obl
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 toe	punct
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 say	det:predet
22	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 grumbles	ccomp
23	/	/	SYM	_	24 oa	cc
24	oa	oa	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 say	conj
25	/	/	SYM	_	29 spelled	cc
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spelled	cc
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 spelled	aux:pass
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 spelled	advmod
29	spelled	spell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 say	conj
30	differently	differently	ADV	_	29 spelled	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 right	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 right	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 right	cop
34	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 say	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 learnable	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 learnable	cc
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 learnable	nsubj
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 learnable	cop
39	still	still	ADV	_	40 learnable	advmod
40	learnable	learnable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 right	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grumbles	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	present	Tom in Newcastle				vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	«	infinitive	« boat	« toe		home property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	spell	present · passive				all, differently property	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»
5	is	present	Tom			right property	tree rules
6	is	present	boat		still	learnable 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:3.

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, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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