How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 4

Five words a night with a quick look back at last week's words beats twenty words crammed into one evening; this is called spaced practice.

Who acts: Five words, last week · What happens: beat, cram, call, space, word · To what, where: twenty words, this · 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 (Five words, last week), 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	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 words	nummod
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 beats	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	nmod:unmarked
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 look	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 look	det
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	amod
8	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	nmod
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 look	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 words	case
11	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 week	amod
12	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 words	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 week	case
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 look	nmod
15	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 words	nummod
17	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 beats	obj
18	crammed	cram	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 words	acl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 evening	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 evening	nummod
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crammed	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 called	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 called	aux:pass
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 beats	parataxis
26	spaced	space	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 practice	amod
27	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 beats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	beat	present	Five words a night with a quick look at last week's words	twenty words		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
2	cram	participle		twenty words not said here	evening	vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	call	present · passive		this		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	space	participle				tree rules
5	word		last week			nom word «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:4.

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 ×2. 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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