--- title: «ea» says /ee/ in «eat» but /e/ in «head»; «ow» says /ow/ in «cow» b… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics description: «ea» says /ee/ in «eat» but /e/ in «head»; «ow» says /ow/ in «cow» but /oa/ in «snow»; «ear» says /ear/ in «hear» but /air/ in «bear»; «oo» is long in «moon» and short in «book». Who acts: ea, ow, ear, oo. 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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 (ea, ow, ear, oo), 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:6 # text = «ea» says /ee/ in «eat» but /e/ in «head»; «ow» says /ow/ in «cow» but /oa/ in «snow»; «ear» says /ear/ in «hear» but /air/ in «bear»; «oo» is long in «moon» and short in «book». # 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): R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×7 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 ea ea 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 _ _ 6 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 7 / / SYM SYM _ 6 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 « « PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 appos _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 / / SYM SYM ExtPos=ADP 14 punct _ _ 14 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 15 / / PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 ow ow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 » » PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 24 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 / / PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 ow ow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 / / PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 30 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ _ 31 » » PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 / / SYM , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 oa oa NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 35 / / PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:,:_ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 « « PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ _ 38 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 39 » » PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ _ 40 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct 41 « « PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 42 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 » » PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=42:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 44 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 45 / / PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 46 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 / / SYM SYM _ 46 punct _ _ 48 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 « « PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 50 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 appos _ _ 51 » » PUNCT '' _ 50 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=50:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 52 but but CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 / / PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=54:punct|HaikuPos=SYM:SYM:ExtPos=ADP 54 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 55 / / PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 56 in in ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 « « PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ _ 58 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=54:appos 59 » » PUNCT '' _ 58 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=58:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 60 ; ; PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 61 « « PUNCT `` _ 62 punct _ _ 62 oo oo NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nsubj _ _ 63 » » PUNCT '' _ 62 punct _ _ 64 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 65 cop _ _ 65 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 66 in in ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 « « PUNCT `` _ 68 punct _ _ 68 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 obl _ _ 69 » » PUNCT '' _ 68 punct _ _ 70 and and CCONJ CC _ 71 cc _ _ 71 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 65 conj _ _ 72 in in ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 « « PUNCT `` _ 74 punct _ _ 74 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 obl _ _ 75 » » PUNCT '' _ 74 punct _ _ 76 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ea | ee but e | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ee=Topic | | 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ow | ow but oa | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ow=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | ear | ear but air in bear | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ear=Topic | | 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | present | oo | | | moon | | long *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | | oo *not said here* | | | book | | | 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:6`. **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): R2-punct-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×7. **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…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/5/) - next →: [Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/)