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title: Fahrenheit is named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German-speaki… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics
description: Fahrenheit is named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German-speaking scientist, and is spelled F-A-H-R-E-N-H-E-I-T, with "ei" as in German. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 12

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Fahrenheit is named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German-speaking scientist, and is spelled F-A-H-R-E-N-H-E-I-T, with "ei" as in German.

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**What happens:** name, speak, spell · **To what, where:** Fahrenheit, F · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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: 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:12
# text = Fahrenheit is named after Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a German-speaking scientist, and is spelled F-A-H-R-E-N-H-E-I-T, with "ei" as in German.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Fahrenheit	Fahrenheit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Daniel	Daniel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	Gabriel	Gabriel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Fahrenheit	Fahrenheit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	scientist	scientist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	F	F	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	A	A	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct
22	H	H	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	advcl	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	R	R	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
26	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
28	N	N	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
30	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	_
32	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=36:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	_
36	T	T	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	_
40	ei	EI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	German	German	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | present · passive |  | Fahrenheit |  |  | after Daniel |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spell** | present · passive |  | F |  |  |  | as German; H E *obl* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: f=Theme |

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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:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:12`.

**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, 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/).

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