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title: Lucas, who tries to learn twenty in one night, may pass on Friday an… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics
description: Lucas, who tries to learn twenty in one night, may pass on Friday and forget most of them by Monday. Who acts: Lucas. 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 5

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Lucas, who tries to learn twenty in one night, may pass on Friday and forget most of them by Monday.

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**Who acts:** Lucas · **What happens:** try, learn, pass, forget · **To what, where:** twenty, most

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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 (Lucas), 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:5
# text = Lucas, who tries to learn twenty in one night, may pass on Friday and forget most of them by Monday.
# 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
1	Lucas	Lucas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tries	try	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Friday	Friday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Monday	Monday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | present | Lucas |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **learn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lucas *not said here* | twenty |  |  | night |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Topic |
| 3 | **pass** | may | Lucas |  |  |  | friday |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **forget** | infinitive | Lucas *not said here* | most of schools |  |  | monday |  | 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:5`.

**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. **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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