--- title: The s in «island» was added by scholars who wrongly linked the word… — i before e, silent letters and other famous traps · tree and pragmatics description: The s in «island» was added by scholars who wrongly linked the word to Latin «insula»; it was never spoken. Who acts: scholars. 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 e --- [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/22/) [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/) / 22 # i before e, silent letters and other famous traps, sentence 22 The s in «island» was added by scholars who wrongly linked the word to Latin «insula»; it was never spoken. **Who acts:** scholars · **What happens:** add, link, not speak · **To what, where:** s, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (scholars), 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:22 # text = The s in «island» was added by scholars who wrongly linked the word to Latin «insula»; it was never spoken. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 s s NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 5 island island NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 added add VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 scholars scholar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl:agent _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 12 wrongly wrongly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 linked link VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 insula insula NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:appos 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 26 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past · passive | scholars | the s in island | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 2 | **link** | past | scholars | the word | | | | to Latin; insula *obl*; wrongly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent word=Patient to latin=Co-Patient | | 3 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | past · passive | | s | | | | | 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:22`. **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, R8-pos-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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