--- title: Recognising a word when reading is easier than recalling its spellin… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics description: Recognising a word when reading is easier than recalling its spelling, so children often read a word before they can spell it. Who acts: Recognising, children, spelling. 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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 (Recognising, children, spelling), 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:21 # text = Recognising a word when reading is easier than recalling its spelling, so children often read a word before they can spell it. # 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): no change 1 Recognising recognise VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 csubj _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 reading read VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 advcl _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 easier easy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 8 than than SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 9 recalling recall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 often often ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 read read VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 spell spell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recognise** | gerund | | a word | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 2 | **read** | gerund | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | Recognising | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **recall** | gerund | Recognising *not said here* | spelling's spelling | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spelling=Theme | | 5 | **read** | infinitive | children | a word | | | | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 6 | **spell** | can | children *= child* | spelling | | | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **spell** | | spelling | | | | | | nom spelling «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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:21`. **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: [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/) - next →: [Tricky words and common exception words, 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/22/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/)