Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 1

The swap test catches most traps: if you can say "they are", write they're; if you can say "you are", write you're; if you can say "it is" or "it has", write it's; otherwise it is their, your or its.

Who acts: swap test, you, test · What happens: catch, say, write, be · To what, where: most traps, test, traps · 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 (swap test, you, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 test	det
2	swap	swap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 test	compound
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catches	nsubj
4	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 traps	amod
6	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 catches	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 say	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 say	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 catches	parataxis
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 are	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	ccomp
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 are	punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 write	punct
17	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	conj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 're	nsubj
19	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 write	ccomp
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 say	punct
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 say	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 say	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 say	aux
24	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	parataxis
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 write	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 are	nsubj
27	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 write	advcl
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 are	punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 are	punct
30	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 say	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 're	nsubj
32	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 write	ccomp
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 say	punct
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 say	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 say	nsubj
36	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 say	aux
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 write	advcl
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	48 write	punct
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 is	nsubj
40	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 write	cop
41	"	"	PUNCT	_	40 is	punct
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 has	cc
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 has	punct
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 has	nsubj
45	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 write	aux
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	45 has	punct
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 write	punct
48	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 say	ccomp
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 write	obj
50	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 write	cop
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 otherwise	punct
52	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	30 write	advmod
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 their	nsubj
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 their	cop
55	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 otherwise	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 your	punct
57	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 their	conj
58	or	or	CCONJ	_	59 its	cc
59	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 write	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 catches	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	present	the swap test	most traps		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trap=Theme
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	can	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	write	infinitive	you not said here			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	can	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	does in a quote	present	you			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	write	infinitive	you not said here	test	otherwise property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent its=Theme
7	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	can	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	is	present			write property	tree rules
9	is a	present	test	traps = trap		tree rules

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:1.

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 ×7, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/1/