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title: «oo» has a long sound in «moon» and a short sound in «book», and acc… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: «oo» has a long sound in «moon» and a short sound in «book», and accents differ in how they say «book». Who acts: oo, accents. 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 o
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# Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 20

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«oo» has a long sound in «moon» and a short sound in «book», and accents differ in how they say «book».

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**Who acts:** oo, accents · **What happens:** have, differ, say · **To what, where:** long sound, moon, book · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (oo, accents), 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:20
# text = «oo» has a long sound in «moon» and a short sound in «book», and accents differ in how they say «book».
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	oo	oo	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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	differ	differ	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
29	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
31	.	.	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 | oo | a long sound and a short sound in book |  | moon |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |
| 2 | **differ** | present | accents |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Accents *= accent* | book |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent book=Topic |

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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:20`.

**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): 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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