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title: Look, say, cover, write, check is a method for learning a spelling f… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics
description: Look, say, cover, write, check is a method for learning a spelling from memory. Who acts: you, cover, check, method. 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 every clause.
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# How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 16

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Look, say, cover, write, check is a method for learning a spelling from memory.

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**Who acts:** you, cover, check, method · **What happens:** look, write, be, learn · **To what, where:** method, spelling, memory

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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 (you, cover, check, method), 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:16
# text = Look, say, cover, write, check is a method for learning a spelling from memory.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×2
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
3	say	say	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	cover	cover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct
7	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **write** | infinitive | cover |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | check | a method |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | gerund | a method *not said here* | a spelling |  | memory |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent spelling=Topic from memory=Source |

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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:16`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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