Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 23
Memory works better with short practice spread over days than with one long session.
Who acts: Memory · What happens: work, spread · To what, where: short practice
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 (Memory), 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 | Memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 works | nsubj |
| 2 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 works | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 practice | case |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 practice | amod |
| 6 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 practice | acl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 days | case |
| 9 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spread | obl |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 session | case |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 session | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 session | nummod |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 session | amod |
| 14 | session | session | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 works | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | Memory | well property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spread | participle | short practice not said here | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:23.
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): R5-strong ×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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