How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 24
Spelling tests check progress; they are practice, not a judgement of the person.
Who acts: Spelling tests, tests · What happens: check, be · To what, where: progress, practice
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 tests, tests), 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 | Spelling | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tests | compound |
| 2 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 check | nsubj |
| 3 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 check | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 practice | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 practice | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 practice | cop |
| 8 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 check | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 judgement | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 judgement | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 judgement | det |
| 12 | judgement | judgement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 practice | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 person | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 judgement | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 check | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | present | Spelling tests | progress | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | tests = test | practice and a judgement of the person | tree rules |
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:24.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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