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title: ★★★ Which word follows the FULL rhyme, «i before e except after c, w… — i before e, silent letters and other f… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ Which word follows the FULL rhyme, «i before e except after c, when the sound is /ee/»? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 10 «i before e, silent letters and other famous traps» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's 
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# Test 10 · ★ · i before e, silent letters and other famous traps

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★★★ Which word follows the FULL rhyme, «i before e except after c, when the sound is /ee/»?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ★ ★ ★, i, sound · **What happens:** follow, e, be · **To what, where:** FULL rhyme, ee

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 10 «i before e, silent letters and other famous traps» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t10:1
# text = ★★★ Which word follows the FULL rhyme, «i before e except after c, when the sound is /ee/»?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	FULL	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	e	e	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	except	except	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | ★ ★ ★ | the FULL rhyme |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Theme |
| 2 | **e** *in a quote* | present | i |  |  |  |  | except c | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | the sound | ee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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weird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t10:o1:1
# text = weird
1	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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their, because it has no c

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t10:o2:1
# text = their, because it has no c
1	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | it | no c |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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receipt

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t10:o3:1
# text = receipt
1	receipt	receipt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t10:o4:1
# text = eight
1	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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