--- title: Spelling still matters in school, jobs and any message people take s… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics description: Spelling still matters in school, jobs and any message people take seriously, even if an older cousin calls it something «for boomers». Who acts: Spelling, people, older cousin. A sentence of the lesson «How to learn spellings that stick» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 13 Spelling still matters in school, jobs and any message people take seriously, even if an older cousin calls it something «for boomers». **Who acts:** Spelling, people, older cousin · **What happens:** matter, take, call · **To what, where:** school, message, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Spelling, people, older cousin), 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:13 # text = Spelling still matters in school, jobs and any message people take seriously, even if an older cousin calls it something «for boomers». # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod 3 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 jobs job NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 10 det _ _ 10 message message NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 11 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 even even ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 18 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:amod 19 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound 20 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 20 xcomp _ _ 23 « « PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 boomers boomer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **matter** | present | Spelling | | | school and jobs and any message | still | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **take** | present | people | any message *not said here* | | | | seriously *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | | 3 | **call** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a older cousin | word | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | 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:13`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/12/) - next →: [How to learn spellings that stick, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/)