Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 13
Queue comes from French, where it means "tail", and is spelled Q-U-E-U-E: you hear only the Q, and the four letters after it add no sound.
Who acts: Queue, you, four letters · What happens: come, mean, spell, hear, add · To what, where: French, tail, Q, sound
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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 (Queue, you, four letters), 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 | Queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 French | case |
| 4 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 means | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 means | nsubj |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 French | advcl:relcl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tail | punct |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 tail | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spelled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spelled | cc |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spelled | aux:pass |
| 15 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 comes | conj |
| 16 | Q | Q | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spelled | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Q | punct |
| 18 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Q | appos |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 E | punct |
| 20 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 U | appos |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 E | punct |
| 22 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 E | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 E | punct |
| 24 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 E | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 hear | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 hear | nsubj |
| 27 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | parataxis |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 Q | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Q | det |
| 30 | Q | Q | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hear | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 add | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 add | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 letters | det |
| 34 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 letters | nummod |
| 35 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 add | nsubj |
| 36 | after | after | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 letters | nmod |
| 38 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | conj |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 sound | det |
| 40 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 add | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | Queue | French | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from french=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | queue | tail | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Topic | ||||
| 3 | spell | present · passive | Queue not said here | Q | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: q=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | present | you | the Q | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer q=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | present | the four letters after queue | no sound | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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