How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 17
Spaced practice, small amounts over several days, works better than cramming in one night.
Who acts: Spaced practice · What happens: space, work, cram
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 (Spaced 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 | Spaced | space | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 practice | amod |
| 2 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 amounts | punct |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 amounts | amod |
| 5 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 practice | conj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 amounts | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 practice | punct |
| 10 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 works | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 cramming | mark |
| 13 | cramming | cram | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 works | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 night | nummod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cramming | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 works | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | space | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | work | present | Spaced practice and small amounts over several days | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cram | gerund | Spaced practice and small amounts over several days not said here | night | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:17.
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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