How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 13

Spelling still matters in school, jobs and any message people take seriously, even if an older cousin calls it something «for boomers».

Who acts: Spelling, people, older cousin · What happens: matter, take, call · To what, where: school, message, word · 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 (Spelling, people, older cousin), 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	Spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matters	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 matters	advmod
3	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 school	case
5	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 matters	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 jobs	punct
7	jobs	job	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 school	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 message	cc
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 message	det
10	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 school	conj
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	nsubj
12	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 message	acl:relcl
13	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	12 take	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 calls	punct
15	even	even	ADV	_	20 calls	advmod
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 calls	mark
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cousin	det
18	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 cousin	amod
19	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 calls	nsubj
20	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 matters	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 calls	obj
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 calls	xcomp
23	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 boomers	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 boomers	case
25	boomers	boomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 something	nmod
26	»	»	PUNCT	_	25 boomers	punct
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 matters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Spelling		school and jobs and any message	still		vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	take	present	people	any message not said here			seriously property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
3	call a condition, not said to happen	present	a older cousin	word				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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, 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:13.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, 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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