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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 tre --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 4 Some choices follow where the sound sits: «ai» usually in the middle of a word (rain, train), «ay» at the end (play, day). **Who acts:** choices, sound · **What happens:** follow, sit · **To what, where:** ay, ai, middle 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 (choices, sound), 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:4 # text = Some choices follow where the sound sits: «ai» usually in the middle of a word (rain, train), «ay» at the end (play, day). # 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 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 choices choice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 10 ai ai X GW _ 7 obj _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 12 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 19 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 20 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 appos _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 « « PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ _ 26 ay ay NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 27 » » PUNCT '' _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct 28 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 32 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 32 punct _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | some choices | ay | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sit** | present | the sound | ai | | the middle of a word | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent ai=Theme in middle=Location | 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:4`. **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. **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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/3/) - next →: [Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/)