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title: Common silent-letter groups: kn (knife, knee), wr (write, wrong), mb… — i before e, silent letters and other famous traps · tree and pragmatics
description: Common silent-letter groups: kn (knife, knee), wr (write, wrong), mb (lamb, climb, thumb), gn (gnome). 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.
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# i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 21

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Common silent-letter groups: kn (knife, knee), wr (write, wrong), mb (lamb, climb, thumb), gn (gnome).

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**What happens:** write

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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:21
# text = Common silent-letter groups: kn (knife, knee), wr (write, wrong), mb (lamb, climb, thumb), gn (gnome).
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	kn	kn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	wr	wr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	parataxis	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	mb	mb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	climb	climb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	thumb	thumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	gn	gn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
31	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
32	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:parataxis
33	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	32	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

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**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:21`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×3. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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