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title: Writing your own sentence with each word fixes spelling and meaning… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics
description: Writing your own sentence with each word fixes spelling and meaning together: «I accidentally dropped my sandwich.» Who acts: Writing, mum, your. A sentence of the lesson «How to learn spellings that stick» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 11

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Writing your own sentence with each word fixes spelling and meaning together: «I accidentally dropped my sandwich.»

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**Who acts:** Writing, mum, your · **What happens:** write, fix, drop, sentence · **To what, where:** own sentence, spelling, sandwich · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How to learn spellings that stick» 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 (Writing, mum, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:015-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick.lesson:11
# text = Writing your own sentence with each word fixes spelling and meaning together: «I accidentally dropped my sandwich.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 015-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick.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 ×1
1	Writing	write	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	fixes	fix	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	spelling	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	meaning	mean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	sandwich	sandwich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
21	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	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 | **write** | gerund |  | your own sentence |  |  |  | with each word | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme |
| 2 | **fix** | present | Writing | spelling and meaning |  |  |  | together *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drop** *in a quote* | past | Freddie's mum *= mum* | my sandwich |  |  |  | accidentally *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Theme |
| 4 | **sentence** |  | your |  |  |  |  | with each word | nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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:015-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick.lesson:11`.

**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.

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

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