--- title: A word wall in class shows key words so children can check them; usi… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics description: A word wall in class shows key words so children can check them; using it is how spellings get learned, not cheating. Who acts: word wall, children. A sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the prag --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Tricky words and common exception words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/) / 19 # Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 19 A word wall in class shows key words so children can check them; using it is how spellings get learned, not cheating. **Who acts:** word wall, children · **What happens:** show, check, use, be, not cheat · **To what, where:** key words, words, wall, spellings This is a sentence of the lesson «Tricky words and common exception words» 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 (word wall, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:19 # text = A word wall in class shows key words so children can check them; using it is how spellings get learned, not cheating. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 key key ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 so so SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 10 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 using use VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 18 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 19 spellings spelling NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 20 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 learned learn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 cheating cheat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | present | a word wall class | key words | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Recipient | | 2 | **check** | can | children | words *= word* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **use** | gerund | children *not said here* | wall | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present · passive | | spellings | | | | learn *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **cheat** | gerund | children *not said here* | | | | | | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:19`. **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/). - ← previous: [Tricky words and common exception words, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/18/) - next →: [Tricky words and common exception words, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/)