Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 4
Some choices follow where the sound sits: «ai» usually in the middle of a word (rain, train), «ay» at the end (play, day).
Who acts: choices, sound · What happens: follow, sit · To what, where: ay, ai, middle
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 (choices, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 choices | det |
| 2 | choices | choice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 sits | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sits | nsubj |
| 7 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 sits | punct |
| 9 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 ai | punct |
| 10 | ai | ai | X | _ | 7 sits | obj |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 ai | punct |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 middle | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 middle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 middle | det |
| 15 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sits | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 word | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 word | det |
| 18 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 middle | nmod |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 rain | punct |
| 20 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 word | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 train | punct |
| 22 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rain | conj |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 rain | punct |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ay | punct |
| 25 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 ay | punct |
| 26 | ay | ay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obl |
| 27 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 26 ay | punct |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 end | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 end | det |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 32 play | punct |
| 32 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 end | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 day | punct |
| 34 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 play | conj |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 32 play | punct |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | some choices | ay | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | present | the sound | ai | the middle of a word | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent ai=Theme in middle=Location |
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:4.
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.
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