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title: Using a list word in your own sentence checks its meaning as well as… — Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by… · tree and pragmatics
description: Using a list word in your own sentence checks its meaning as well as its spelling. Who acts: Using, your, sentence, 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Words to know, Years 3–4 (the statutory list, by idea), sentence 26

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Using a list word in your own sentence checks its meaning as well as its spelling.

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**Who acts:** Using, your, sentence, meaning · **What happens:** use, check, sentence, mean, spell · **To what, where:** list word, own sentence, meaning

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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 (Using, your, sentence, 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:26
# text = Using a list word in your own sentence checks its meaning as well as its spelling.
# 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): no change
1	Using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	list	list	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	16	cc	_	_
13	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	fixed	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | gerund |  | a list word |  | your own sentence |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **check** | present | Using | sentence's meaning as meaning's spelling |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme |
| 3 | **sentence** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **mean** |  | sentence |  |  |  |  |  | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **spell** |  | meaning |  |  |  |  |  | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=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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**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.

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

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