--- title: Tricky words often come in families with the same odd part: say, say… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics description: Tricky words often come in families with the same odd part: say, says, said; come, some, done, none; the, they, there. Who acts: Tricky words. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tricky words), 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:22 # text = Tricky words often come in families with the same odd part: say, says, said; come, some, done, none; the, they, there. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Tricky tricky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 often often ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 families family NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 odd odd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 15 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 19 obl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 reparandum _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 ccomp _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Tricky words | | | families | | with the same odd part; often *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in family=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** | infinitive | | none | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **do** | participle | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:22`. **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. **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, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/21/) - next →: [Tricky words and common exception words, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/)