--- title: Five words a night with a quick look back at last week's words beats… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics description: Five words a night with a quick look back at last week's words beats twenty words crammed into one evening; this is called spaced practice. Who acts: Five words, last week. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Five words, last week), 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:4 # text = Five words a night with a quick look back at last week's words beats twenty words crammed into one evening; this is called spaced practice. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod:unmarked _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 look look NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 9 back back ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 15 beats beat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 crammed cram VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=15:punct 23 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:conj 26 spaced space VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 practice practice NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:obj 28 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beat** | present | Five words a night with a quick look at last week's words | twenty words | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme | | 2 | **cram** | participle | | twenty words *not said here* | | | evening | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** | present · passive | | this | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **space** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **word** | | last week | | | | | | nom word «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:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/3/) - next →: [How to learn spellings that stick, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/)