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title: Champions break a long word into chunks and use a memory trick in th… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics
description: Champions break a long word into chunks and use a memory trick in their head: "one collar and two sleeves" for necessary (one c, two s), "con + science" for conscience. Who acts: Champions. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 3

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Champions break a long word into chunks and use a memory trick in their head: "one collar and two sleeves" for necessary (one c, two s), "con + science" for conscience.

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**Who acts:** Champions · **What happens:** break, use · **To what, where:** long word, chunks, memory trick, head

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» 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 (Champions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.lesson:3
# text = Champions break a long word into chunks and use a memory trick in their head: "one collar and two sleeves" for necessary (one c, two s), "con + science" for conscience.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Champions	champion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	chunks	chunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nmod	_	_
26	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	28	punct	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod
31	s	s	X	AFX	_	28	amod	_	_
32	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
35	con	con	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
36	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	37	cc	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=37:case
37	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present | Champions | a long word |  | chunks |  | for conscience | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent word=Patient science=Result |
| 2 | **use** | present | Champions *not said here* | a memory trick |  | word's head |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Patient |

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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:055-olympiad-the-spelling-bee.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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