How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 2

Practice only helps if it is accurate, which is why schools use look, say, cover, write, check: look at the word, say it, cover it, write it from memory, then check it letter by letter, and check again tomorrow.

Who acts: Practice, schools · What happens: help, be, use, say, cover, write · To what, where: look, memory · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Practice, schools), 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	Practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helps	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 helps	advmod
3	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 accurate	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 accurate	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 accurate	cop
7	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 helps	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 accurate	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 look	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 look	cop
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 helps	acl:relcl
12	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 use	nsubj
13	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 why	ccomp
14	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 use	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 look	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
18	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 look	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 write	punct
20	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 look	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 check	punct
22	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 write	parataxis
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 look	punct
24	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 check	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 word	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 word	det
27	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 say	punct
29	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 look	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 say	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cover	punct
32	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 say	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cover	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 write	punct
35	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 cover	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 write	obj
37	from	from	ADP	_	38 memory	case
38	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 write	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 check	punct
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 check	advmod
41	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 cover	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 check	obj
43	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 check	obl:unmarked
44	by	by	ADP	_	45 letter	case
45	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 check	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 check	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 check	cc
48	check	check	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	41 check	conj
49	again	again	ADV	_	48 check	advmod
50	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 check	obl:unmarked
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 helps	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Practice					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	Practice				accurate property	tree rules
3	use	present	schools					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		look				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	infinitive						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	cover	infinitive						vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
7	write	infinitive						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	check	infinitive						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	look	infinitive					at the word	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at word=Theme
10	say speech: assert	infinitive		look				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
11	cover	infinitive		look				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination
12	write	infinitive		look	memory			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent it=Result from memory=Material
13	check	infinitive		look		then	by letter; letter obl:unmarked	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
14	check	infinitive				again; tomorrow		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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:2.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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