--- title: Many ei words make the /ay/ sound: eight, weigh, neighbour; the rhym… — i before e, silent letters and other famous traps · tree and pragmatics description: Many ei words make the /ay/ sound: eight, weigh, neighbour; the rhyme does not cover them. Who acts: Many words, rhyme. 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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 (Many words, rhyme), 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:19 # text = Many ei words make the /ay/ sound: eight, weigh, neighbour; the rhyme does not cover them. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 ei ei X FW _ 3 nmod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 6 / / PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 7 ay ay NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 8 / / PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 11 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 appos _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 weigh weigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rhyme rhyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Many words ei | the ay sound and neighbour | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | | 2 | **not** **cover** | present · do-support | the rhyme | words *= word* | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination | 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:19`. **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, 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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