How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 19
Words with silent first letters are found under their real spelling: psychology under ps, knee under kn.
Who acts: spelling · What happens: find, spell · To what, where: Words, real spelling
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 (spelling), 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 | Words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 letters | case |
| 3 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 letters | amod |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 letters | amod |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Words | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 spelling | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 spelling | nmod:poss |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 spelling | amod |
| 11 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 psychology | punct |
| 13 | psychology | psychology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spelling | appos |
| 14 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 ps | case |
| 15 | ps | ps | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 psychology | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knee | punct |
| 17 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 psychology | conj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 kn | case |
| 19 | kn | kn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knee | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | Words with silent first letters | spelling's real spelling | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spell | spelling = spell | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=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:19.
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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