--- title: «ew» (new) and «ue» (blue) can both say /oo/; which one a word uses… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics description: «ew» (new) and «ue» (blue) can both say /oo/; which one a word uses is learned word by word. Who acts: ew, word. 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/) / 21 # Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 21 «ew» (new) and «ue» (blue) can both say /oo/; which one a word uses is learned word by word. **Who acts:** ew, word · **What happens:** say, use, learn · **To what, where:** oo, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (ew, word), 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:21 # text = «ew» (new) and «ue» (blue) can both say /oo/; which one a word uses is learned word by word. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 ew ew NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 5 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 appos _ _ 6 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 5 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 ue ue NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 10 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 12 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 13 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 14 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 both both ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 / / SYM SYM _ 18 punct _ _ 18 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 / / PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 21 which which DET WDT PronType=Rel 22 det _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 parataxis _ _ 28 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 16 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | ew and ue | oo | | | | both *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oo=Topic | | 2 | **use** | present | a word | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **learn** | present · passive | word | which one | | | | | 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:21`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/20/) - next →: [Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi…, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/)