Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 6

«ea» says /ee/ in «eat» but /e/ in «head»; «ow» says /ow/ in «cow» but /oa/ in «snow»; «ear» says /ear/ in «hear» but /air/ in «bear»; «oo» is long in «moon» and short in «book».

Who acts: ea, ow, ear, oo · What happens: say, eat, hear, be · To what, where: ee, ow, ear, moon, book · 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 (ea, ow, ear, oo), 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 ea	punct
2	ea	ea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 ea	punct
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	/	/	SYM	_	6 ee	punct
6	ee	ee	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	obj
7	/	/	SYM	_	6 ee	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 eat	case
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ee	appos
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 e	cc
13	/	/	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	14 e	punct
14	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ee	conj
15	/	/	PUNCT	_	14 e	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 head	case
17	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 head	punct
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 e	appos
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	18 head	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
21	«	«	PUNCT	_	22 ow	punct
22	ow	ow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 says	nsubj
23	»	»	PUNCT	_	22 ow	punct
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
25	/	/	PUNCT	_	26 ow	punct
26	ow	ow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 says	obj
27	/	/	PUNCT	_	26 ow	punct
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 cow	case
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	30 cow	punct
30	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ow	appos
31	»	»	PUNCT	_	30 cow	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 oa	cc
33	/	/	SYM	_	34 oa	punct
34	oa	oa	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ow	conj
35	/	/	PUNCT	_	34 oa	punct
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 snow	case
37	«	«	PUNCT	_	38 snow	punct
38	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 oa	appos
39	»	»	PUNCT	_	38 snow	punct
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 says	punct
41	«	«	PUNCT	_	42 ear	punct
42	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 says	nsubj
43	»	»	PUNCT	_	42 ear	punct
44	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	conj
45	/	/	PUNCT	_	44 says	punct
46	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 says	obj
47	/	/	SYM	_	46 ear	punct
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 hear	case
49	«	«	PUNCT	_	50 hear	punct
50	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 ear	appos
51	»	»	PUNCT	_	50 hear	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 air	cc
53	/	/	PUNCT	_	54 air	punct
54	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ear	conj
55	/	/	PUNCT	_	54 air	punct
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 bear	case
57	«	«	PUNCT	_	58 bear	punct
58	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 air	nmod
59	»	»	PUNCT	_	58 bear	punct
60	;	;	PUNCT	_	68 moon	punct
61	«	«	PUNCT	_	62 oo	punct
62	oo	oo	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 long	nsubj
63	»	»	PUNCT	_	62 oo	punct
64	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	65 long	cop
65	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	parataxis
66	in	in	ADP	_	68 moon	case
67	«	«	PUNCT	_	68 moon	punct
68	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 long	obl
69	»	»	PUNCT	_	68 moon	punct
70	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 short	cc
71	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 long	conj
72	in	in	ADP	_	74 book	case
73	«	«	PUNCT	_	74 book	punct
74	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 short	obl
75	»	»	PUNCT	_	74 book	punct
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	ea	ee but e			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ee=Topic
2	eat in a quote	infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	present	ow	ow but oa			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ow=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present	ear	ear but air in bear			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ear=Topic
5	hear in a quote	infinitive					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	oo		moon	long property	tree rules
7	be		oo not said here		book		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:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×7. 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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