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title: «ea» has two common sounds: /ee/ in «eat» and /e/ in «head». — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: «ea» has two common sounds: /ee/ in «eat» and /e/ in «head». Who acts: ea. 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 18

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«ea» has two common sounds: /ee/ in «eat» and /e/ in «head».

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**Who acts:** ea · **What happens:** have, eat · **To what, where:** two common sounds

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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 (ea), 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:18
# text = «ea» has two common sounds: /ee/ in «eat» and /e/ in «head».
# 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	ea	ea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
9	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	10	cc	_	_
10	ee	ee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nsubj
11	/	/	SYM	SYM	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:cc
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	/	/	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
18	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
19	/	/	SYM	,	_	23	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | ea | two common sounds |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:18`.

**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 ×3, R8-pos-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/).

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