--- title: «i before e except after c» works mainly for the /ee/ sound: believe… — i before e, silent letters and other famous traps · tree and pragmatics description: «i before e except after c» works mainly for the /ee/ sound: believe, field, receive, ceiling. Who acts: i e. 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 the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 16 «i before e except after c» works mainly for the /ee/ sound: believe, field, receive, ceiling. **Who acts:** i e · **What happens:** work, believe, field, receive, ceil 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: who acts (i e), 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:16 # text = «i before e except after c» works mainly for the /ee/ sound: believe, field, receive, ceiling. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 flat _ _ 3 before before ADP IN _ 4 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 4 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 except except ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 c C X GW _ 9 mark _ _ 8 » » X ADD _ 7 goeswith _ _ 9 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 13 / / ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 / / SYM , _ 16 cc _ _ 16 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 believe believe VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 field field VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 22 receive receive VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 ceiling ceil VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | i e | | | | | for / ee / the sound; mainly *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for ee=Beneficiary | | 2 | **believe** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **field** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **receive** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ceil** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:16`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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