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title: «ai» usually comes in the middle of a word (rain) and «ay» at the en… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: «ai» usually comes in the middle of a word (rain) and «ay» at the end (play). Who acts: ai. A sentence of the lesson «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 15

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«ai» usually comes in the middle of a word (rain) and «ay» at the end (play).

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**Who acts:** ai · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** middle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling» 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 (ai), 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:15
# text = «ai» usually comes in the middle of a word (rain) and «ay» at the end (play).
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	ai	ai	X	GW	_	5	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
17	ay	ay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
23	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | ai |  |  | the middle of a word and ay | at the end | usually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location |

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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:004-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling.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): R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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