How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 10
Colour helps only if you colour the tricky bit, not the whole word in a rainbow.
Who acts: Colour, you · What happens: help, colour · To what, where: tricky bit
This is a sentence of the lesson «How to learn spellings that stick» 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 (Colour, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 colour | advmod |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 colour | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 colour | nsubj |
| 6 | colour | colour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 helps | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bit | det |
| 8 | tricky | tricky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bit | amod |
| 9 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 colour | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 word | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 word | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 word | amod |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bit | appos |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 rainbow | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rainbow | det |
| 17 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | Colour | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | colour a condition, not said to happen | present | you | the tricky bit | tree rules |
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, 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:015-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick.lesson:10.
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 ×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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