Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 20
Look, say, cover, write, check is a way to learn a spelling: look at it, say it, cover it, write it from memory, then check.
What happens: look, say, cover, write, check, be · To what, where: way, spelling, memory · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cover | punct |
| 5 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 write | punct |
| 7 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 check | punct |
| 9 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 learn | mark |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 way | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 spelling | det |
| 16 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 learn | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 way | punct |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 way | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 look | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 say | punct |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 say | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cover | punct |
| 25 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 cover | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 write | punct |
| 28 | write | write | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 write | obj |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 memory | case |
| 31 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 write | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 check | punct |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 check | advmod |
| 34 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | cover | infinitive | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | write | infinitive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | check | infinitive | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | present | a way | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | learn | to-infinitive | a spelling | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Topic | |||||
| 8 | look | infinitive | at spelling | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | |||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | infinitive | spelling | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||||
| 10 | cover | infinitive | spelling | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||||
| 11 | write | infinitive | spelling | memory | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent it=Result from memory=Material | ||||
| 12 | check | infinitive | then | vn assessment-34.1 «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: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): R6-punct-agree ×3. 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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