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title: Spaced practice, small amounts over several days, works better than… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics
description: Spaced practice, small amounts over several days, works better than cramming in one night. Who acts: Spaced practice. 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 17

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Spaced practice, small amounts over several days, works better than cramming in one night.

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**Who acts:** Spaced practice · **What happens:** space, work, cram

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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 (Spaced practice), 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:17
# text = Spaced practice, small amounts over several days, works better than cramming in one night.
# 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): no change
1	Spaced	space	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	amod	_	_
2	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	works	work	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	cramming	cram	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **space** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | Spaced practice and small amounts over several days |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cram** | gerund | Spaced practice and small amounts over several days *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:17`.

**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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