Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 19

A word wall in class shows key words so children can check them; using it is how spellings get learned, not cheating.

Who acts: word wall, children · What happens: show, check, use, be, not cheat · To what, where: key words, words, wall, spellings

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» 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 (word wall, children), 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	3 wall	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wall	compound
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shows	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 shows	case
5	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wall	nmod
6	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	key	key	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shows	obj
9	so	so	SCONJ	_	12 check	mark
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 check	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 check	aux
12	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shows	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 check	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 using	punct
15	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 check	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 using	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 learned	cop
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 learned	advmod
19	spellings	spelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 learned	nsubj
20	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 learned	aux:pass
21	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 using	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cheating	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 cheating	advmod
24	cheating	cheat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 check	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present	a word wall class	key words		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient
2	check	can	children	words = word		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	use	gerund	children not said here	wall		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	present · passive		spellings	learn property	tree rules
5	not cheat	gerund	children not said here			vn cheat-10.6.1 «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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:19.

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): 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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