--- title: Writing your own sentence with a word helps you remember its spellin… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics description: Writing your own sentence with a word helps you remember its spelling and its meaning. Who acts: Writing, you, your, word. 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. --- [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/22/) [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/) / 22 # How to learn spellings that stick, sentence 22 Writing your own sentence with a word helps you remember its spelling and its meaning. **Who acts:** Writing, you, your, word · **What happens:** write, help, remember, sentence, spell, mean · **To what, where:** own sentence, you, spelling 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 (Writing, you, your, word), 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:22 # text = Writing your own sentence with a word helps you remember its spelling and its meaning. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Writing write VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 sentence sentence NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod 8 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 remember remember VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | gerund | | your own sentence | | | | with a word | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sentence=Theme | | 2 | **help** | present | Writing | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 3 | **remember** | infinitive | you *not said here* | word's spelling and word's meaning | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent spelling=Theme | | 4 | **sentence** | | your | | | | | | nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **spell** | | word | | | | | | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **mean** | | word | | | | | | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:22`. **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 ×1, 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, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/21/) - next →: [How to learn spellings that stick, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/23/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/)