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title: «Ancient», «conscience» and «conscious» spell a /sh/ sound with ci o… — Words to know, Years 5–6 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: «Ancient», «conscience» and «conscious» spell a /sh/ sound with ci or sci. Who acts: Ancient. A sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 5–6 (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 5–6 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 25

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«Ancient», «conscience» and «conscious» spell a /sh/ sound with ci or sci.

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**Who acts:** Ancient · **What happens:** spell · **To what, where:** sh sound

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 5–6 (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 (Ancient), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson:25
# text = «Ancient», «conscience» and «conscious» spell a /sh/ sound with ci or sci.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 014-words-to-know-years-5-6.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
12	spell	spell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	/	/	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
15	sh	sh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl
16	/	/	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	ci	co	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sci	sci	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **spell** | infinitive | Ancient and conscience | a sh sound |  |  |  | with ci or sci | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent sound=Theme with co=Manner |

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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:014-words-to-know-years-5-6.lesson:25`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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