--- title: «Neighbour» is the British spelling, with ei for /ay/ and an -our en… — i before e, silent letters and other famous traps · tree and pragmatics description: «Neighbour» is the British spelling, with ei for /ay/ and an -our ending; American English writes «neighbor». Who acts: Neighbour, American English, our. 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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 (Neighbour, American English, our), 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:27 # text = «Neighbour» is the British spelling, with ei for /ay/ and an -our ending; American English writes «neighbor». # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 ei EI PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 / / PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 ay ay NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 / / PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 ending ending NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 writes write VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 24 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 25 neighbor neighbor NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Neighbour | the British spelling | | | | with ei; for ay and our ending | tree rules | | 2 | **write** | present | American English | neighbor | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Theme | | 3 | **end** | | our | | | | | | nom ending «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:27`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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