--- title: The trick for spelling is to think about meaning first, and to use l… — Homophones: words that sound the same · tree and pragmatics description: The trick for spelling is to think about meaning first, and to use little memory hooks, like "you hear with your ear, so heard has ear in it". Who acts: trick, you. 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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 (trick, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.lesson:4 # text = The trick for spelling is to think about meaning first, and to use little memory hooks, like "you hear with your ear, so heard has ear in it". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 9 advmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 use use VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 hooks hook NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 like like SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 nsubj _ _ 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 30 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ _ 33 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | the trick for spelling | | | | | about meaning; think *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **use** | to-infinitive | the trick for spelling *not said here* | little memory hooks | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hook=Patient | | 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | with your ear | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | present | | ear | | spelling | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | 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:language:027-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same.lesson:4`. **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: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/3/) - next →: [Homophones: words that sound the same, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/)