--- title: Wednesday comes from Old English "Woden's day", which is why it keep… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics description: Wednesday comes from Old English "Woden's day", which is why it keeps a "d" and "nes" that most people do not say. Who acts: Wednesday, conscience, most people. 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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 (Wednesday, conscience, most people), 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:11 # text = Wednesday comes from Old English "Woden's day", which is why it keeps a "d" and "nes" that most people do not say. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wednesday Wednesday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 7 Woden Woden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl:relcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 19 d d NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 23 nes ne NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 26 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 28 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl:relcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Wednesday | | | | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **keep** | present | conscience | a d and nes | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent d=Theme | | 4 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | most people | nes | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | 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:11`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/10/) - next →: [Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/55-olympiad-the-spelling-bee/)