Silent letters and the mystery of -ough, sentence 15
Worcestershire is said "WUSS-ter-sher", Leicester "LES-ter" and Gloucester "GLOS-ter".
What happens: say · To what, where: Worcestershire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Silent letters and the mystery of -ough» 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: 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 | Worcestershire | Worcestershire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sher | punct |
| 5 | WUSS | wuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sher | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 WUSS | punct |
| 7 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sher | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 sher | punct |
| 9 | sher | sher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sher | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Leicester | punct |
| 12 | Leicester | Leicester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Worcestershire | conj |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ter | punct |
| 14 | LES | le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ter | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ter | punct |
| 16 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Leicester | appos |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ter | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Gloucester | cc |
| 19 | Gloucester | Gloucester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Worcestershire | conj |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Gloucester | punct |
| 21 | GLOS | GLOS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Gloucester | flat |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ter | punct |
| 23 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Gloucester | appos |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 ter | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | 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 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Worcestershire and Leicester and Gloucester | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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:013-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough.lesson:15.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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