--- title: A dictionary gives spelling and meaning; a phone's spellcheck is qui… — How to learn spellings that stick · tree and pragmatics description: A dictionary gives spelling and meaning; a phone's spellcheck is quick but can offer the wrong word if your try is far off, so read its suggestion. Who acts: dictionary, spellcheck, try, your. 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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 (dictionary, spellcheck, try, your), 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:7 # text = A dictionary gives spelling and meaning; a phone's spellcheck is quick but can offer the wrong word if your try is far off, so read its suggestion. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dictionary dictionary NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 spellcheck spellcheck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 offer offer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 try try NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 24 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 25 off off ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 suggestion suggestion NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present | a dictionary | spelling and meaning | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | a phone's spellcheck | | | | | quick *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **offer** | can | a phone's spellcheck *not said here* | the wrong word | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent word=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | your try | | | | | far, read *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **try** | | your | | | | | | nom try «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **suggest** | | try | | | | | | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: 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:7`. **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/). - ← previous: [How to learn spellings that stick, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/6/) - next →: [How to learn spellings that stick, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/15-how-to-learn-spellings-that-stick/)