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title: Dyslexia is a lasting difficulty with reading and spelling; only a s… — Tricky words and common exception words · tree and pragmatics
description: Dyslexia is a lasting difficulty with reading and spelling; only a specialist can identify it, never from one mistake. Who acts: Dyslexia, specialist. 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 pr
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# Tricky words and common exception words, sentence 26

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Dyslexia is a lasting difficulty with reading and spelling; only a specialist can identify it, never from one mistake.

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**Who acts:** Dyslexia, specialist · **What happens:** be, identify · **To what, where:** lasting difficulty, Dyslexia, one mistake

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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 (Dyslexia, specialist), 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:26
# text = Dyslexia is a lasting difficulty with reading and spelling; only a specialist can identify it, never from one mistake.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Dyslexia	dyslexia	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	lasting	lasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	reading	reading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	specialist	specialist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	identify	identify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Dyslexia | a lasting difficulty |  |  |  | with reading and spelling | tree rules |
| 2 | **identify** | can | a specialist | Dyslexia |  | one mistake |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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:003-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words.lesson:26`.

**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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