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title: «ir», «ur» and «er» make the same sound (bird, burn, her), but each… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: «ir», «ur» and «er» make the same sound (bird, burn, her), but each word has its own usual spelling. Who acts: ir, 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 ever
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# Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 24

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«ir», «ur» and «er» make the same sound (bird, burn, her), but each word has its own usual spelling.

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**Who acts:** ir, word · **What happens:** make, have, spell · **To what, where:** same sound, own usual spelling

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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 (ir, 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:24
# text = «ir», «ur» and «er» make the same sound (bird, burn, her), but each word has its own usual spelling.
# 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 ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	ir	ir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	_
6	ur	ur	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	2	conj	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
10	er	er	ADV	GW	Typo=Yes	6	conj	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
17	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	burn	burn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	goeswith	_	_
22	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **make** | infinitive | ir | the same sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
| 2 | **have** | present | each word | word's own usual spelling |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient |
| 3 | **spell** |  | word |  |  |  |  |  | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=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:24`.

**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 ×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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