How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 14
And practice fits anywhere: spell the signs, the menu and the car number plates on the way to school.
Who acts: practice · What happens: fit, spell · To what, where: signs, way
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 (practice), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fits | cc |
| 2 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fits | nsubj |
| 3 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 fits | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 spell | punct |
| 6 | spell | spell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fits | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 signs | det |
| 8 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spell | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 menu | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 menu | det |
| 11 | menu | menu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 signs | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 plates | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plates | det |
| 14 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 number | compound |
| 15 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 plates | compound |
| 16 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 signs | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spell | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 school | case |
| 21 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 way | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fits | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | practice | anywhere property | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spell | infinitive | the signs and the menu and the number plates | the way to school | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sign=Theme on way=Destination |
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:14.
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): no change. 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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