--- title: «February» has an r that many people skip in speech, so say «Feb-RU-… — i before e, silent letters and other famous traps · tree and pragmatics description: «February» has an r that many people skip in speech, so say «Feb-RU-ary» in your head when you write it. Who acts: February, many people, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (February, many people, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:010-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps.lesson:13 # text = «February» has an r that many people skip in speech, so say «Feb-RU-ary» in your head when you write it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 010-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 February February PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 r r NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 8 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 skip skip VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 speech speech NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 17 Feb February PROPN NNP Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 RU RU PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 ary ary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obj _ _ 22 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 write write VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | February | a r | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent r=Patient | | 2 | **skip** | present | many people | a r | | speech | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme in speech=Trajectory | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | ary | | your head | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent ary=Theme in head=Manner | | 4 | **write** | present | you | r | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:010-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps.lesson:13`. **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 ×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. 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