Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 2
Most hard words hide a trap: a double letter (accommodate has a double c AND a double m, necessary has one c and a double s), a silent letter (rhythm, Wednesday), or a sound people say wrongly (mischievous has no "i" before -ous).
Who acts: Most hard words, double letter, necessary, people, mischievous · What happens: hide, have, say · To what, where: trap, double c, one c, sound, i · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Most hard words, double letter, necessary, people), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 words | amod |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hide | nsubj |
| 4 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trap | det |
| 6 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hide | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 hide | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 letter | det |
| 9 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 letter | amod |
| 10 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 accommodate | punct |
| 12 | accommodate | accommodate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hide | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 c | det |
| 15 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 c | amod |
| 16 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 has | obj |
| 17 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 m | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 m | det |
| 19 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 m | amod |
| 20 | m | M | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 c | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 22 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 has | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hide | parataxis |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 c | nummod |
| 25 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 s | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 s | det |
| 28 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 s | amod |
| 29 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 c | conj |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 c | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 letter | punct |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 letter | det |
| 33 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 letter | amod |
| 34 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 letter | conj |
| 35 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 36 rhythm | punct |
| 36 | rhythm | rhythm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 letter | appos |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Wednesday | punct |
| 38 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 rhythm | appos |
| 39 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 rhythm | punct |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sound | punct |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 sound | cc |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 sound | det |
| 43 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 letter | conj |
| 44 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 say | nsubj |
| 45 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 sound | acl:relcl |
| 46 | wrongly | wrongly | ADV | _ | 45 say | advmod |
| 47 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 49 has | punct |
| 48 | mischievous | mischievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 has | nsubj |
| 49 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 say | ccomp |
| 50 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 52 i | det |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 i | punct |
| 52 | i | i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 has | obj |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 i | punct |
| 54 | before | before | ADP | _ | 56 ous | case |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 before | punct |
| 56 | ous | ous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 i | nmod |
| 57 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 49 has | punct |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hide | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Most hard words | a trap | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | a double letter and a silent letter or a sound | a double c and a double m | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | necessary | one c and a double s | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | people | a sound not said here | wrongly property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | have | present | mischievous | no i | before ous | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:2.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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