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title: Rhythm is spelled R-H-Y-T-H-M; it comes from Greek and has no a, e,… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics
description: Rhythm is spelled R-H-Y-T-H-M; it comes from Greek and has no a, e, i, o or u, with "y" doing the job of a vowel. Who acts: rhythm, y, vowel. 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 5

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Rhythm is spelled R-H-Y-T-H-M; it comes from Greek and has no a, e, i, o or u, with "y" doing the job of a vowel.

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**Who acts:** rhythm, y, vowel · **What happens:** spell, come, have, do, job · **To what, where:** Rhythm, Greek, a, job

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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 (rhythm, y, vowel), 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:5
# text = Rhythm is spelled R-H-Y-T-H-M; it comes from Greek and has no a, e, i, o or u, with "y" doing the job of a vowel.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	R	R	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Y	Y	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
10	T	T	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	_
12	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	M	M	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	_	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	23	det	_	_
23	a	a	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=23:punct
25	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	i	i	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	u	u	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	_
35	y	y	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
37	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	vowel	vowel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |  | Rhythm |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme r=Manner |
| 2 | **come** | present | rhythm |  |  | Greek |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from greek=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **have** | present | rhythm *not said here* | no a and e and i and o |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent a=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | gerund | y | the job of a vowel |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 5 | **job** |  | a vowel |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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**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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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.

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