--- title: Some famous rules are weak: "i before e except after c" fails for sc… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: Some famous rules are weak: "i before e except after c" fails for science, weird, their, height and eight, so treat it as a hint, not a law. Who acts: famous rules, i e. 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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 (famous rules, i e), 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:3 # text = Some famous rules are weak: "i before e except after c" fails for science, weird, their, height and eight, so treat it as a hint, not a law. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 8 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 flat _ _ 9 before before ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 except except ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 after after ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 15 fails fail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 science science NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:nmod 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 weird weird ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 treat treat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hint hint NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nmod 37 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | some famous rules | | | | | weak *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fail** | present | i e | | | | | for science | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **treat** | infinitive | some famous rules *not said here* | e | | | | as a hint | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as hint=Attribute | 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:3`. **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): R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Spelling traps: their, there, they're…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/2/) - next →: [Spelling traps: their, there, they're…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/)