Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 0
Some English words sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things: they're (they are), their (belonging to them) and there (that place): "They're going to their house over there."
Who acts: English words, words · What happens: sound, spell, mean, belong, be, go · To what, where: same, different things, words, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends» of the language 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 (English words, words), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 words | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sound | obj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 spelled | cc |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spelled | aux:pass |
| 9 | spelled | spell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sound | conj |
| 10 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 9 spelled | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mean | cc |
| 12 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spelled | conj |
| 13 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 mean | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 there | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 there | nsubj |
| 17 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 there | cop |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 30 there | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 are | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 there | cop |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 are | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 there | punct |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 there | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 belonging | punct |
| 25 | belonging | belong | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 their | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 belonging | obl |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 belonging | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 there | cc |
| 30 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sound | advmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 place | punct |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 place | det |
| 33 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 there | parataxis |
| 34 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 33 place | punct |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 going | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 going | punct |
| 37 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 going | nsubj |
| 38 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 going | aux |
| 39 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 there | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 house | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 house | nmod:poss |
| 42 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 going | obl |
| 43 | over | over | ADV | _ | 44 there | advmod |
| 44 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 going | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 going | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | some English words | the same | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spell | present · passive | some English words not said here | differently property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP» | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | some English words not said here | different things | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 4 | belong | gerund | words = word | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | present | words = word | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go in a quote | present · progressive | words = word | words's house; there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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:language:012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.lesson:0.
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 ×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.
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