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title: Mischievous is spelled M-I-S-C-H-I-E-V-O-U-S and said "MIS-chi-vus";… — Olympiad: the Spelling Bee · tree and pragmatics
description: Mischievous is spelled M-I-S-C-H-I-E-V-O-U-S and said "MIS-chi-vus"; "mischievious", with an extra "i", is a very common mistake. Who acts: I, mischievious. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: the Spelling Bee» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Olympiad: the Spelling Bee, sentence 6

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Mischievous is spelled M-I-S-C-H-I-E-V-O-U-S and said "MIS-chi-vus"; "mischievious", with an extra "i", is a very common mistake.

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**Who acts:** I, mischievious · **What happens:** spell, say, be · **To what, where:** Mischievous, common mistake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, mischievious), 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:6
# text = Mischievous is spelled M-I-S-C-H-I-E-V-O-U-S and said "MIS-chi-vus"; "mischievious", with an extra "i", is a very common mistake.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Mischievous	Mischievous	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	spelled	spell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	parataxis	_	_
4	M	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:::_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
8	S	S	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	_
10	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
12	H	H	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	list	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	_
16	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	list	_	_
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
18	V	V	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	_
20	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	24	case	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	U	U	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct
24	S	S	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
28	MIS	MIS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	chi	chi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
32	vus	vus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	_
36	mischievious	mischievious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	nsubj	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	acl	_	_
42	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	43	punct	_	_
43	i	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	conj	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	43	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	very	very	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	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 | **spell** | present · passive |  | Mischievous |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme m=Manner |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | mischievious | a common mistake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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**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, 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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