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title: Worcestershire is said "WUSS-ter-sher", Leicester "LES-ter" and Glou… — Silent letters and the mystery of -ough · tree and pragmatics
description: Worcestershire is said "WUSS-ter-sher", Leicester "LES-ter" and Gloucester "GLOS-ter". A sentence of the lesson «Silent letters and the mystery of -ough» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Silent letters and the mystery of -ough, sentence 15

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Worcestershire is said "WUSS-ter-sher", Leicester "LES-ter" and Gloucester "GLOS-ter".

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**What happens:** say · **To what, where:** Worcestershire · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Silent letters and the mystery of -ough» of the language 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:013-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough.lesson:15
# text = Worcestershire is said "WUSS-ter-sher", Leicester "LES-ter" and Gloucester "GLOS-ter".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 013-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Worcestershire	Worcestershire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
5	WUSS	wuss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
9	sher	sher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Leicester	Leicester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
14	LES	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct
16	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Gloucester	Gloucester	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
21	GLOS	GLOS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	_
23	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | Worcestershire and Leicester and Gloucester |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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:language:013-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough.lesson:15`.

**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 ×2, 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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