--- title: The wise approach: use the full rhyme only for /ee/, learn silent le… — i before e, silent letters and other famous traps · tree and pragmatics description: The wise approach: use the full rhyme only for /ee/, learn silent letters in groups (kn, wr, mb, gn), and keep a short list of the famous oddballs. A sentence of the lesson «i before e, silent letters and other famous traps» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [i before e, silent letters and other f…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/10-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps/) / 15 # i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 15 The wise approach: use the full rhyme only for /ee/, learn silent letters in groups (kn, wr, mb, gn), and keep a short list of the famous oddballs. **What happens:** use, learn, keep, list · **To what, where:** full rhyme, silent letters, groups, short list, famous oddballs This is a sentence of the lesson «i before e, silent letters and other famous traps» of the english 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:010-i-before-e-silent-letters-and-famous-traps.lesson:15 # text = The wise approach: use the full rhyme only for /ee/, learn silent letters in groups (kn, wr, mb, gn), and keep a short list of the famous oddballs. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 approach approach NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 5 use use VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 / / PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 12 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 / / PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 learn learn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 kn kn NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 wr wr NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 mb mb NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 gn gn NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 list list NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 oddballs oddball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | infinitive | | the full rhyme | | | | for ee | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent rhyme=Theme for ee=Eventuality | | 2 | **learn** | infinitive | | silent letters | | groups | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | | 3 | **keep** | infinitive | | a short list of the famous oddballs | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent list=Theme | | 4 | **list** | | | the famous oddballs | | | | | nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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: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 ×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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