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title: It works the other way too: one spelling can make more than one sound. — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics
description: It works the other way too: one spelling can make more than one sound. Who acts: sound, one spelling. 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.
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# Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 5

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It works the other way too: one spelling can make more than one sound.

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**Who acts:** sound, one spelling · **What happens:** work, make · **To what, where:** other way, one sound

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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 (sound, one spelling), 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:5
# text = It works the other way too: one spelling can make more than one sound.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:obj
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | present | sound | the other way |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | can | one spelling | one sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |

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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:5`.

**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 ×1, 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/).

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