--- title: «ear» says /ear/ in «hear» and /air/ in «bear», «pear» and «wear». — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics description: «ear» says /ear/ in «hear» and /air/ in «bear», «pear» and «wear». Who acts: ear. 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/22/) [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/) / 22 # Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 22 «ear» says /ear/ in «hear» and /air/ in «bear», «pear» and «wear». **Who acts:** ear · **What happens:** say, hear · **To what, where:** ear · **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 (ear), 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:22 # text = «ear» says /ear/ in «hear» and /air/ in «bear», «pear» and «wear». # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 / / SYM SYM _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 6 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nsubj 7 / / SYM SYM _ 6 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 / / SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 14 case _ _ 14 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obl 15 / / SYM SYM _ 14 punct _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:cc 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:conj 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 pear pear NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 wear wear NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ear | ear | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ear=Topic | | 2 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | ear *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | 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:22`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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. 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