--- title: The trick is to learn words with the same sound in groups: an «igh»… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics description: The trick is to learn words with the same sound in groups: an «igh» family (high, light, night), an «ew» family (new, flew, chew), a «ue» family (blue, glue, true). Who acts: trick. 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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 (trick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.lesson:13 # text = The trick is to learn words with the same sound in groups: an «igh» family (high, light, night), an «ew» family (new, flew, chew), a «ue» family (blue, glue, true). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.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, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 « « X GW _ 18 compound _ _ 16 igh igh X JJ _ 15 goeswith _ _ 17 » » PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 18 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=20:punct 22 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 25 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 ew ew NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:obl 30 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 31 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=29:conj 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=35:punct 33 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 35 flew flew NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 chew chew NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 35 punct _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 ue ue NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 44 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=44:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 44 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 45 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 46 punct _ _ 46 blue blue NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 glue glue NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=48:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 51 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 46 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=42:punct 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | the trick | | | | | a « family and ew family *obl*; learn *property* | tree rules | 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:004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.lesson:13`. **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, R3-conj-first ×2, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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