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title: Reading a lot helps, but many readers also need to study a few words… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics
description: Reading a lot helps, but many readers also need to study a few words closely to spell them. Who acts: Reading, many readers. 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 23

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Reading a lot helps, but many readers also need to study a few words closely to spell them.

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**Who acts:** Reading, many readers · **What happens:** read, help, need, study, spell · **To what, where:** lot, few words, readers

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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 (Reading, many readers), 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:23
# text = Reading a lot helps, but many readers also need to study a few words closely to spell them.
# 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	Reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	csubj	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	spell	spell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **read** | gerund |  | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic |
| 2 | **help** | present | Reading |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **need** | present | many readers |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **study** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | many readers *not said here* | a few words |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 5 | **spell** | to-infinitive | many readers *not said here* | readers *= reader* |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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**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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