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title: «Height» is spelled h-e-i-g-h-t, like «weight», though it sounds lik… — Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Height» is spelled h-e-i-g-h-t, like «weight», though it sounds like /ite/. Who acts: i, height. A sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 23

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«Height» is spelled h-e-i-g-h-t, like «weight», though it sounds like /ite/.

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**Who acts:** i, height · **What happens:** spell, t, sound · **To what, where:** Height

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» 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 (i, height), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:23
# text = «Height» is spelled h-e-i-g-h-t, like «weight», though it sounds like /ite/.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 013-words-to-know-years-3-4.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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	g	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	h	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
20	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
26	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	ite	ite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **spell** | present · passive |  | Height |  |  |  | like weight | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme e=Manner |
| 2 | **t** |  | i |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sound** | present | height |  |  |  |  | like ite | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:23`.

**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.

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

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