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title: Many ei words say /ay/: eight, weigh, neighbour. — i before e, silent letters and other famous traps · tree and pragmatics
description: Many ei words say /ay/: eight, weigh, neighbour. Who acts: Many ei words. 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 3

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Many ei words say /ay/: eight, weigh, neighbour.

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**Who acts:** Many ei words · **What happens:** say · **To what, where:** ay · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Many ei words), 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:3
# text = Many ei words say /ay/: eight, weigh, neighbour.
# 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): no change
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	ei	ei	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	6	cc	_	_
6	ay	ay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	weigh	weigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Many ei words | ay and weigh and neighbour |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ay=Topic |

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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:3`.

**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): no change. **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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