How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 18
A dictionary gives spelling and meaning; spellcheck is quick but may suggest the wrong word, so read the suggestion.
Who acts: dictionary, spellcheck · What happens: give, be, suggest, read · To what, where: spelling, wrong word, suggestion
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 (dictionary, spellcheck), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dictionary | det |
| 2 | dictionary | dictionary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | spelling | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 meaning | cc |
| 6 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spelling | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 quick | punct |
| 8 | spellcheck | spellcheck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quick | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 quick | cop |
| 10 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gives | parataxis |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 suggest | cc |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 suggest | aux |
| 13 | suggest | suggest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 quick | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 word | det |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 word | amod |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suggest | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 read | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 read | advmod |
| 19 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gives | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 suggestion | det |
| 21 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 read | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | a dictionary | spelling and meaning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | spellcheck | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suggest speech: suggest | may | spellcheck not said here | the wrong word | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 4 | read | infinitive | the suggestion | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suggestion=Topic |
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:18.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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