Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 21

Recognising a word when reading is easier than recalling its spelling, so children often read a word before they can spell it.

Who acts: Recognising, children, spelling · What happens: recognise, read, be, recall, spell · To what, where: word, spelling

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 (Recognising, children, spelling), 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	Recognising	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 easier	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 word	det
3	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Recognising	obj
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 reading	advmod
5	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Recognising	advcl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 easier	cop
7	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 recalling	mark
9	recalling	recall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 easier	advcl
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 spelling	nmod:poss
11	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recalling	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 read	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 read	advmod
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 read	nsubj
15	often	often	ADV	_	16 read	advmod
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easier	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 read	obj
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 spell	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spell	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 spell	aux
22	spell	spell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 read	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spell	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 easier	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	recognise	gerund		a word		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	read	gerund				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	Recognising		easy property	tree rules
4	recall	gerund	Recognising not said here	spelling's spelling		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Theme
5	read	infinitive	children	a word	often property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic
6	spell	can	children = child	spelling		vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	spell		spelling			nom spelling «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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:21.

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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