Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 3
Some famous rules are weak: "i before e except after c" fails for science, weird, their, height and eight, so treat it as a hint, not a law.
Who acts: famous rules, i e · What happens: be, fail, treat · To what, where: e
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends» of the language 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 (famous rules, i e), 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 | 3 rules | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rules | amod |
| 3 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 weak | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weak | cop |
| 5 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 e | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 e | punct |
| 8 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 e | flat |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 e | advmod |
| 10 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fails | nsubj |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 15 fails | case |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 fails | case |
| 13 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fails | compound |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 c | punct |
| 15 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weak | parataxis |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 science | case |
| 17 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fails | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 weird | punct |
| 19 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fails | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 height | punct |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 height | nmod:poss |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 height | punct |
| 23 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fails | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eight | cc |
| 25 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 height | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 treat | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 treat | advmod |
| 28 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 weak | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 treat | obj |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 hint | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 hint | det |
| 32 | hint | hint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 treat | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 law | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 law | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 law | det |
| 36 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hint | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 weak | 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 | is | present | some famous rules | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fail | present | i e | for science | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | treat | infinitive | some famous rules not said here | e | as a hint | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as hint=Attribute |
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:language:012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.lesson:3.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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