How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 20
A mnemonic is a memory trick; it helps with a few very hard words, and rules help with most others.
Who acts: mnemonic, word, rules · What happens: be, help · To what, where: memory trick
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 (mnemonic, word, rules), 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 mnemonic | det |
| 2 | mnemonic | mnemonic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trick | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trick | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trick | det |
| 5 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trick | compound |
| 6 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 helps | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 helps | nsubj |
| 9 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trick | parataxis |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 words | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 hard | advmod |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 helps | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 help | cc |
| 18 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | nsubj |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 trick | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 others | case |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 others | amod |
| 22 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 trick | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a mnemonic | a memory trick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | word | with a few hard words | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | help | present | rules | with most others | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with other=Theme |
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:20.
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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