--- title: At the start of «yes» it is a consonant; in «my» it says /ie/ and in… — Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe… · tree and pragmatics description: At the start of «yes» it is a consonant; in «my» it says /ie/ and in «happy» it says /ee/, so there it works as a vowel. Who acts: y. 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 pragm --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spelling, sentence 9 At the start of «yes» it is a consonant; in «my» it says /ie/ and in «happy» it says /ee/, so there it works as a vowel. **Who acts:** y · **What happens:** be, say, work, start · **To what, where:** consonant, start, ie, ee, « · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (y), 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:9 # text = At the start of «yes» it is a consonant; in «my» it says /ie/ and in «happy» it says /ee/, so there it works as a vowel. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 start start NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 « « PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nmod _ _ 6 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 11 discourse _ _ 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 consonant consonant NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 13 in in SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 « « SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 16 » » PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 / / SYM SYM _ 20 cc _ _ 20 ie ie NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 / / SYM SYM _ 25 cc _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 « « ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 / / SYM , _ 30 cc _ _ 30 ee ee NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 / / PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 34 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 vowel vowel NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | y | a consonant | | the start of « | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | y | ie | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ie=Topic | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | y | ee | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ee=Topic | | 4 | **work** | present | y | | | there | | as a vowel | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as vowel=Attribute | | 5 | **start** | | | « | | | | | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient | 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:9`. **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 ×2, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/8/) - next →: [Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosi…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/)