Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e, sentence 4
The double letter is a guard that keeps the vowel short.
Who acts: double letter, guard · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: guard, vowel
This is a sentence of the lesson «Adding -ed and -ing: doubling and dropping e» 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 (double letter, guard), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 letter | amod |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guard | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 guard | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 guard | det |
| 6 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 keeps | nsubj |
| 8 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 guard | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vowel | det |
| 10 | vowel | vowel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeps | obj |
| 11 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 keeps | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 guard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the double letter | a guard | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | a guard | the vowel | short property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vowel=Theme |
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:007-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e.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): 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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