How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 7

A dictionary gives spelling and meaning; a phone's spellcheck is quick but can offer the wrong word if your try is far off, so read its suggestion.

Who acts: dictionary, spellcheck, try, your · What happens: give, be, offer, try, suggest · To what, where: spelling, wrong word

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 (dictionary, spellcheck, try, your), 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 dictionary	det
2	dictionary	dictionary	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 meaning	cc
6	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spelling	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 quick	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 phone	det
9	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spellcheck	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 phone	case
11	spellcheck	spellcheck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 quick	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 quick	cop
13	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gives	parataxis
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 offer	cc
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 offer	aux
16	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 quick	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 word	det
18	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 word	amod
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 offer	obj
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 read	mark
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 try	nmod:poss
22	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 read	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 read	cop
24	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 read	advmod
25	off	off	ADV	_	24 far	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 far	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 read	advmod
28	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 offer	advcl
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 suggestion	nmod:poss
30	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 read	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	present	a dictionary	spelling and meaning		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Theme
2	is	present	a phone's spellcheck		quick property	tree rules
3	offer	can	a phone's spellcheck not said here	the wrong word		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	is	present	your try		far, read property	tree rules
5	try		your			nom try «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	suggest		try			nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: 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:7.

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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