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title: «rainbow colours on every letter, so pretty, I'll remember». What's… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics
description: «rainbow colours on every letter, so pretty, I'll remember». What's better? Test 6 of lesson 15 «How to learn spellings that stick» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · How to learn spellings that stick

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«rainbow colours on every letter, so pretty, I'll remember». What's better?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I · **What happens:** remember, be

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This is test 6 of lesson 15 «How to learn spellings that stick» of the English course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «rainbow colours on every letter, so pretty, I'll remember».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t6:1
# text = «rainbow colours on every letter, so pretty, I'll remember».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's better?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t6:2
# text = What's better?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Use glitter on every word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t6:o1:1
# text = Use glitter on every word
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	glitter	glitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | glitter |  | every word |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glitter=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Colour just the tricky bit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t6:o2:1
# text = Colour just the tricky bit
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	tricky	tricky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Use even more colours

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t6:o3:1
# text = Use even more colours
1	Use	use	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | imperative | you *not said here* | more colours |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Write in black only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick:t6:o4:1
# text = Write in black only
1	Write	write	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | black |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in black=Destination |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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