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title: ★★★ How many of these words have a silent letter: knee, lamb, wet, w… — i before e, silent letters and other f… · tree and pragmatics
description: ★★★ How many of these words have a silent letter: knee, lamb, wet, write, gnome, bed? Test 11 · ★ 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 choice
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# Test 11 · ★ · i before e, silent letters and other famous traps

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★★★ How many of these words have a silent letter: knee, lamb, wet, write, gnome, bed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** many · **What happens:** have, write · **To what, where:** ★

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t11:1
# text = ★★★ How many of these words have a silent letter: knee, lamb, wet, write, gnome, bed?
1	★	★	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	★	★	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	1	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	★	★	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | many of this words | ★ |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 2 | **write** | infinitive | many of this words *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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4

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t11:o1:1
# text = 4
1	4	4	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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3

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t11:o2:1
# text = 3
1	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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5

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t11:o3:1
# text = 5
1	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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6

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps:t11:o4:1
# text = 6
1	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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