Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 9

«It's» means «it is» or «it has»; «its» means belonging to it, with no apostrophe, just like his and hers.

Who acts: It, test · What happens: be, have, mean, belong · To what, where: hers, test · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» 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 (It, test), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 means	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	cop
4	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 is	nsubj
8	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 is	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 has	cc
11	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 is	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 means	nmod:poss
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	19 means	punct
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
20	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 means	xcomp
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 belonging	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 apostrophe	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 apostrophe	case
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 apostrophe	det
26	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 belonging	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hers	punct
28	just	just	ADV	_	32 hers	advmod
29	like	like	SCONJ	_	32 hers	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hers	nmod:poss
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 hers	cc
32	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 belonging	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			mean property	tree rules
2	be in a quote	present	test				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have in a quote	present	test				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	belong not said to happen	gerund		hers = she	test	with no apostrophe	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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, 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:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:9.

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 ×1, R8-pos-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.

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