Silent letters and the mystery of -ough, sentence 5
A silent letter is a letter you write but don't say.
Who acts: silent letter, you · What happens: be, write, not say · To what, where: letter · 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: who acts (silent letter, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 letter | det |
| 2 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 letter | amod |
| 3 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 letter | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 letter | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 letter | det |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 write | nsubj |
| 8 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 letter | acl:relcl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 say | cc |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 say | advmod |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 write | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 letter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a silent letter | a letter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | present | you | a letter not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not say speech: assert | present · do-support | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:5.
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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