--- title: Even keen readers can be weak spellers, because reading skims words… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics description: Even keen readers can be weak spellers, because reading skims words without studying every letter; they need to pick a few words and look closely. Who acts: keen readers, readers. A sentence of the lesson «How to learn spellings that stick» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [How to learn spellings that stick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/) / 12 # How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 12 Even keen readers can be weak spellers, because reading skims words without studying every letter; they need to pick a few words and look closely. **Who acts:** keen readers, readers · **What happens:** be, read, skim, study, need, pick · **To what, where:** weak spellers, words, letter, few words 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 (keen readers, readers), 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:12 # text = Even keen readers can be weak spellers, because reading skims words without studying every letter; they need to pick a few words and look closely. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:advmod 2 keen keen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 readers reader NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 6 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 spellers speller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 nsubj _ _ 11 skims skim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 12 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 without without SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 studying study VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 advcl _ _ 15 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 16 det _ _ 16 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 27 closely closely ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | can | keen readers | weak spellers | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **read** | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **skim** | present | | words | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent word=Source | | 4 | **study** | gerund | | every letter | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | | 5 | **need** | present | readers *= reader* | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **pick** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | readers *= reader* *not said here* | a few words | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 7 | **look** | infinitive | readers *= reader* *not said here* | | | | | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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](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:12`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [How to learn spellings that stick, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/11/) - next →: [How to learn spellings that stick, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/)