--- title: Tom in Newcastle grumbles that «boat», «snow», «home» and «toe» all… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics description: Tom in Newcastle grumbles that «boat», «snow», «home» and «toe» all say /oa/ and are all spelled differently; he is right, and it is still learnable. Who acts: Tom, boat. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, boat), 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:3 # text = Tom in Newcastle grumbles that «boat», «snow», «home» and «toe» all say /oa/ and are all spelled differently; he is right, and it is still learnable. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Newcastle Newcastle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 grumbles grumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 6 « « DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 « « CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 » » NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 « « VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 15 home home ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 toe toe NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 21 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 22 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 23 / / SYM , _ 24 cc _ _ 24 oa oa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 / / SYM , _ 29 cc _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 28 all all ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 30 differently differently ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 learnable learnable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 41 . . 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 | **grumble** *speech: other* | present | Tom in Newcastle | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **«** | infinitive | « boat | « toe | | | | home *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spell** | present · passive | | | | | | all, differently *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP» | | 5 | **is** | present | Tom | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is** | present | boat | | | | still | learnable *property* | 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:3`. **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 ×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. 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