--- title: In a spelling bee the pronouncer says a word and you spell it aloud,… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics description: In a spelling bee the pronouncer says a word and you spell it aloud, letter by letter; one wrong letter and you are out. Who acts: pronouncer, you, letter. 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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 (pronouncer, you, letter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:0 # text = In a spelling bee the pronouncer says a word and you spell it aloud, letter by letter; one wrong letter and you are out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.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): no change 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 pronouncer pronouncer NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 spell spell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 aloud aloud ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 21 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 out out ADV RB _ 7 conj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the pronouncer | a word and one wrong letter | | | | in a spelling bee | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme in bee=Manner | | 2 | **spell** | present | you | pronouncer | | | | aloud *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | you | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **letter** | | letter | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: by=agent | 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:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:0`. **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): no change. **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: [Putting it together: reading and writi…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/54-reading-and-writing-like-a-writer/17/) - next →: [Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/)