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title: Pharaoh, the title of the kings of ancient Egypt, is spelled P-H-A-R… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics
description: Pharaoh, the title of the kings of ancient Egypt, is spelled P-H-A-R-A-O-H, with the "a" before the "o". 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 clause.
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# Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 15

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Pharaoh, the title of the kings of ancient Egypt, is spelled P-H-A-R-A-O-H, with the "a" before the "o".

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**What happens:** spell, title · **To what, where:** Pharaoh, kings

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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:15
# text = Pharaoh, the title of the kings of ancient Egypt, is spelled P-H-A-R-A-O-H, with the "a" before the "o".
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Pharaoh	Pharaoh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	P	P	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
16	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
18	A	A	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	R	R	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	A	A	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	O	O	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	_
26	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
31	a	a	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
33	before	before	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spell** | present · passive |  | Pharaoh |  |  |  | with the a before the o | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme p=Manner |
| 2 | **title** |  |  | the kings of ancient Egypt |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:15`.

**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): 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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