--- title: In a split digraph (a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e) the silent e makes the… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics description: In a split digraph (a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e) the silent e makes the vowel say its name: hop/hope, kit/kite, cub/cube. Who acts: i, e, vowel. 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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 (i, e, vowel), 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:14 # text = In a split digraph (a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e) the silent e makes the vowel say its name: hop/hope, kit/kite, cub/cube. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 split split NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 digraph digraph NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:obl 5 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 8 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 e-e e-e NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 12 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 14 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 18 case _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 18 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 u u PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 22 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 vowel vowel NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 31 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 34 hop/hope hop/hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 kit/kite kit/kite NOUN NN _ 34 conj _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 cub/cube cub/cube NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **e** | | i | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | e and e | the vowel | | a split digraph | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the vowel *not said here* | e's name | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic | | 4 | **name** | | e | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.lesson:14`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×4. **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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