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title: Words with silent first letters are found under their real spelling:… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics
description: Words with silent first letters are found under their real spelling: psychology under ps, knee under kn. Who acts: spelling. 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 19

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Words with silent first letters are found under their real spelling: psychology under ps, knee under kn.

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**Who acts:** spelling · **What happens:** find, spell · **To what, where:** Words, real spelling

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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 (spelling), 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:19
# text = Words with silent first letters are found under their real spelling: psychology under ps, knee under kn.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	psychology	psychology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ps	ps	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	knee	knee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:appos
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	kn	kn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **find** | present · passive |  | Words with silent first letters |  | spelling's real spelling |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **spell** |  | spelling *= spell* |  |  |  |  |  | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=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:19`.

**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): 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/).

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