--- title: A dictionary gives spelling and meaning; spellcheck is quick but may… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics description: A dictionary gives spelling and meaning; spellcheck is quick but may suggest the wrong word, so read the suggestion. Who acts: dictionary, spellcheck. 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 pragmati --- [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/18/) [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/) / 18 # How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 18 A dictionary gives spelling and meaning; spellcheck is quick but may suggest the wrong word, so read the suggestion. **Who acts:** dictionary, spellcheck · **What happens:** give, be, suggest, read · **To what, where:** spelling, wrong word, suggestion 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 (dictionary, spellcheck), 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:18 # text = A dictionary gives spelling and meaning; spellcheck is quick but may suggest the wrong word, so read the suggestion. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dictionary dictionary NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 spelling spell NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 spellcheck spellcheck NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 suggest suggest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 suggestion suggestion NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **give** | present | a dictionary | spelling and meaning | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spell=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | spellcheck | | | | | quick *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | may | spellcheck *not said here* | the wrong word | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 4 | **read** | infinitive | | the suggestion | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suggestion=Topic | 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:18`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/17/) - next →: [How to learn spellings that stick, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/)