How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 16
Look, say, cover, write, check is a method for learning a spelling from memory.
Who acts: you, cover, check, method · What happens: look, write, be, learn · To what, where: method, spelling, memory
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 (you, cover, check, method), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 3 | say | say | INTJ | _ | 7 write | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 5 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 write | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 write | punct |
| 7 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 check | punct |
| 9 | check | check | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 method | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 method | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 method | det |
| 12 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | parataxis |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 learning | mark |
| 14 | learning | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 method | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 spelling | det |
| 16 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 learning | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 memory | case |
| 18 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spelling | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | write | infinitive | cover | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | check | a method | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | learn | gerund | a method not said here | a spelling | memory | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent spelling=Topic from memory=Source |
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:16.
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): R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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