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title: Most hard words hide a trap: a double letter (accommodate has a doub… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics
description: Most hard words hide a trap: a double letter (accommodate has a double c AND a double m, necessary has one c and a double s), a silent letter (rhythm, Wednesday), or a sound people say wrongly (mischievous has no "i" before -ous). Who acts: Most hard words, double letter, necessary, people. A senten
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# Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 2

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Most hard words hide a trap: a double letter (accommodate has a double c AND a double m, necessary has one c and a double s), a silent letter (rhythm, Wednesday), or a sound people say wrongly (mischievous has no "i" before -ous).

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**Who acts:** Most hard words, double letter, necessary, people, mischievous · **What happens:** hide, have, say · **To what, where:** trap, double c, one c, sound, i · **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: who acts (Most hard words, double letter, necessary, 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:2
# text = Most hard words hide a trap: a double letter (accommodate has a double c AND a double m, necessary has one c and a double s), a silent letter (rhythm, Wednesday), or a sound people say wrongly (mischievous has no "i" before -ous).
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
12	accommodate	accommodate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:conj
35	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
36	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	appos	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Wednesday	Wednesday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=45:punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
47	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	49	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=48:punct
48	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	nsubj	_	_
49	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	ccomp	_	_
50	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	52	det	_	_
51	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	_
52	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=49:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP:Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	52	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=50:punct
54	before	before	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	_
56	ous	ous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
57	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	49	punct	_	_
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present | Most hard words | a trap |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | a double letter and a silent letter or a sound | a double c and a double m |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | necessary | one c and a double s |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent c=Patient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | a sound *not said here* |  |  |  | wrongly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | present | mischievous | no i |  |  | before ous |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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:2`.

**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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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