--- title: Spellcheck and autocorrect are helpers, not editors: "The dog bark a… — Editing and redrafting · tree and pragmatics description: Spellcheck and autocorrect are helpers, not editors: "The dog bark at the mail man" passes, because every word is a real word, yet "bark" should be "barked" and the reader still stumbles. Who acts: Spellcheck, dog bark, word, reader. A sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» of the english c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/3/) [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/) / [Editing and redrafting](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/) / 3 # Editing and redrafting, sentence 3 Spellcheck and autocorrect are helpers, not editors: "The dog bark at the mail man" passes, because every word is a real word, yet "bark" should be "barked" and the reader still stumbles. **Who acts:** Spellcheck, dog bark, word, reader · **What happens:** be, pass, bark, stumble · **To what, where:** helpers, real word, bark · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Editing and redrafting» 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 (Spellcheck, dog bark, word, reader), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:3 # text = Spellcheck and autocorrect are helpers, not editors: "The dog bark at the mail man" passes, because every word is a real word, yet "bark" should be "barked" and the reader still stumbles. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 043-editing-and-redrafting.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 Spellcheck spellcheck NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc 3 autocorrect autocorrect NOUN NN _ 1 conj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 editors editor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ _ 11 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 mail mail NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 19 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 advcl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 29 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 31 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 33 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ _ 36 barked bark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 37 " " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=36:cc 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 reader reader NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 41 still still ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=40:advmod 42 stumbles stumble VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Spellcheck and autocorrect | helpers and editors | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | present | the dog bark | | | | | at the mail man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at man=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | every word | a real word | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bark** *in a quote* | should · passive | | bark | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **stumble** | present | the reader | | | | still | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:043-editing-and-redrafting.lesson:3`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. **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: [Editing and redrafting, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/2/) - next →: [Editing and redrafting, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/43-editing-and-redrafting/)