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title: Picture Kai from Manchester groaning "We say Wenzday, it's well tric… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics
description: Picture Kai from Manchester groaning "We say Wenzday, it's well tricky": the old name was "Woden's day", after a god, so the "d" and "nes" are still written although almost nobody says them. Who acts: you, Kai, We, trick. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the english course of
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# Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 4

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Picture Kai from Manchester groaning "We say Wenzday, it's well tricky": the old name was "Woden's day", after a god, so the "d" and "nes" are still written although almost nobody says them.

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**Who acts:** you, Kai, We, trick, old name, nobody · **What happens:** picture, groan, say, be, write · **To what, where:** Kai, Manchester, Wenzday, day, d · **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 (you, Kai, We, trick), 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:4
# text = Picture Kai from Manchester groaning "We say Wenzday, it's well tricky": the old name was "Woden's day", after a god, so the "d" and "nes" are still written although almost nobody says them.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Picture	picture	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Manchester	Manchester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	Wenzday	Wenzday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	tricky	tricky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	ccomp	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Woden	woden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	after	after	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	_
34	d	D	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	_
38	nes	ne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=34:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	38	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	still	still	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
43	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	46	nsubj	_	_
46	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | Kai |  | Manchester |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent kai=Theme |
| 2 | **groan** | gerund | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | We | Wenzday |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wenzday=Topic |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | trick |  |  |  |  | tricky, well *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | the old name | Woden's day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **write** | present · passive |  | the d and nes |  |  | still |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | nobody | d |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |

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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:4`.

**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 ×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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