--- title: "I before e except after c" works for receive and believe, but scien… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: "I before e except after c" works for receive and believe, but science, weird, their, height, eight, seize and ancient break it; some UK teaching guides advise against teaching it as a rule. Who acts: UK teaching guides, I, height. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (UK teaching guides, I, height), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.lesson:12 # text = "I before e except after c" works for receive and believe, but science, weird, their, height, eight, seize and ancient break it; some UK teaching guides advise against teaching it as a rule. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 before before ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 e e VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 except except ADP IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 8 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 for for SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 22 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 appos _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 ancient ancient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 break break VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 35 det _ _ 33 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:compound 34 teaching teaching NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 guides guide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 advise advise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 against against SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=38:mark|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 38 teaching teach VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 as as ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **e** *in a quote* | present | some UK teaching guides *= guide* | means's height | | | | before *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | present | I *not said here* | | | | after c | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **receive** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **believe** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **seize** | infinitive | means's height *not said here* | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **break** | present | I *not said here* | height | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 7 | **advise** *speech: other* | present | some UK teaching guides | | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **teach** *speech: other* | gerund | some UK teaching guides *not said here* | | height | | | as a rule | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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. **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:language:012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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