--- title: Many tricky words are old words whose sound changed while the spelli… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics description: Many tricky words are old words whose sound changed while the spelling stayed the same. Who acts: Many tricky words, sound, spelling. A sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Tricky words and common exception words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/) / 17 # Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 17 Many tricky words are old words whose sound changed while the spelling stayed the same. **Who acts:** Many tricky words, sound, spelling · **What happens:** be, change, stay · **To what, where:** old words 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 (Many tricky words, sound, spelling), 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:17 # text = Many tricky words are old words whose sound changed while the spelling stayed the same. # 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 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 tricky tricky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 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 old old 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 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 while while SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Many tricky words | old words | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **change** | past | sound | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stay** | past | the spelling | | | | | same *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:17`. **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/). - ← previous: [Tricky words and common exception words, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/16/) - next →: [Tricky words and common exception words, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/)