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title: Common exception words are frequent words whose spelling does not fu… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics
description: Common exception words are frequent words whose spelling does not fully match their sounds; the National Curriculum lists them for each year. Who acts: Common exception words, spelling, National Curriculum. A sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english course of M
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# Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 15

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Common exception words are frequent words whose spelling does not fully match their sounds; the National Curriculum lists them for each year.

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**Who acts:** Common exception words, spelling, National Curriculum · **What happens:** be, not match, list · **To what, where:** frequent words, sounds, words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» 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 (Common exception words, spelling, National Curriculum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:15
# text = Common exception words are frequent words whose spelling does not fully match their sounds; the National Curriculum lists them for each year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.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	Common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	exception	exception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	spelling	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	match	match	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	National	National	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Curriculum	Curriculum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lists	list	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **is a** | present | Common exception words | frequent words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **match** | present · do-support | spelling | words's sounds |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
| 3 | **list** | present | the National Curriculum | words *= word* |  |  | year |  | tree rules |

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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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:15`.

**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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