How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 11
Writing your own sentence with each word fixes spelling and meaning together: «I accidentally dropped my sandwich.»
Who acts: Writing, mum, your · What happens: write, fix, drop, sentence · To what, where: own sentence, spelling, sandwich · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Writing, mum, your), 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 | Writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 fixes | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sentence | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sentence | amod |
| 4 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Writing | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 word | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 word | det |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sentence | nmod |
| 8 | fixes | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | spelling | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixes | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 meaning | cc |
| 11 | meaning | mean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spelling | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 fixes | advmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 fixes | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 dropped | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 dropped | nsubj |
| 16 | accidentally | accidentally | ADV | _ | 17 dropped | advmod |
| 17 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fixes | parataxis |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sandwich | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sandwich | sandwich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dropped | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fixes | punct |
| 21 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 8 fixes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | gerund | your own sentence | with each word | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fix | present | Writing | spelling and meaning | together property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | drop in a quote | past | Freddie's mum = mum | my sandwich | accidentally property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme | |||
| 4 | sentence | your | with each word | nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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:11.
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. 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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