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title: Spelling can be practised anywhere: signs, menus, number plates. — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics
description: Spelling can be practised anywhere: signs, menus, number plates. 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 25

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Spelling can be practised anywhere: signs, menus, number plates.

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**What happens:** practise · **To what, where:** 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: 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:25
# text = Spelling can be practised anywhere: signs, menus, number plates.
# 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	Spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	menus	menu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	.	.	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 | **practise** | can · passive |  | Spelling |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | tree rules |

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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:25`.

**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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