How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 15
Copying a word without checking can practise a mistake; practice must be accurate.
Who acts: Copying, practice · What happens: copy, check, practise, be · To what, where: word, mistake
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 (Copying, 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 | Copying | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 practise | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 word | det |
| 3 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Copying | obj |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 checking | mark |
| 5 | checking | check | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Copying | advcl |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 practise | aux |
| 7 | practise | practise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mistake | det |
| 9 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 practise | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 accurate | punct |
| 11 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 accurate | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 accurate | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 accurate | cop |
| 14 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 practise | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 practise | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | gerund | a word | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||||
| 2 | check | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | practise | can | Copying | a mistake | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | must | practice | accurate property | 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: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): 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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