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title: Grouping list words by meaning (time, place, thinking) and learning… — Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Grouping list words by meaning (time, place, thinking) and learning a few each week, not all in one night, makes them easier to learn. Who acts: words, meaning. A sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 17

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Grouping list words by meaning (time, place, thinking) and learning a few each week, not all in one night, makes them easier to learn.

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**Who acts:** words, meaning · **What happens:** group, learn, make, word · **To what, where:** list words, few, words

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea)» 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 (words, meaning), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:17
# text = Grouping list words by meaning (time, place, thinking) and learning a few each week, not all in one night, makes them easier to learn.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson
# annotation = 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 ×2
1	Grouping	group	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
2	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thinking	thinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:det
16	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:amod
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
26	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	xcomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **group** | gerund |  | list words |  |  |  | by meaning  time and place and thinking | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **learn** | gerund |  | a few |  |  | week |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent few=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | present |  | words *= word* |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 4 | **learn** | to-infinitive | words *= word* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **word** |  | meaning  time and place and thinking |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: by=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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:013-words-to-know-years-3-4.lesson:17`.

**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 ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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