--- title: Look, say, cover, write, check is a way to learn a spelling: look at… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics description: Look, say, cover, write, check is a way to learn a spelling: look at it, say it, cover it, write it from memory, then check. 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 pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 20 Look, say, cover, write, check is a way to learn a spelling: look at it, say it, cover it, write it from memory, then check. **What happens:** look, say, cover, write, check, be · **To what, where:** way, spelling, memory · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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: 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:20 # text = Look, say, cover, write, check is a way to learn a spelling: look at it, say it, cover it, write it from memory, then check. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct 3 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 5 cover cover VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct 7 write write VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 acl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 18 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 cover cover VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 write write VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 34 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cover** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **write** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **check** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | present | | a way | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **learn** | to-infinitive | | a spelling | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Topic | | 8 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | at spelling | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | spelling | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 10 | **cover** | infinitive | | spelling | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 11 | **write** | infinitive | | spelling | | memory | | | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent it=Result from memory=Material | | 12 | **check** | infinitive | | | | | then | | vn assessment-34.1 «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:20`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3. **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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/19/) - next →: [Tricky words and common exception words, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/)