Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 13
Text speak shortens words with letters and numbers that sound like them: c (see), u (you), l8r (later), m8 (mate).
Who acts: Text speak, letters · What happens: shorten, sound, see · To what, where: words
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 (Text speak, letters), 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 | Text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 speak | compound |
| 2 | speak | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shortens | nsubj |
| 3 | shortens | shorten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shortens | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 letters | case |
| 6 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 words | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 numbers | cc |
| 8 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 letters | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sound | nsubj |
| 10 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 letters | acl:relcl |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sound | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 c | punct |
| 14 | c | c | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shortens | parataxis |
| 15 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 c | parataxis |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 u | punct |
| 19 | u | you | PRON | Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 shortens | conj |
| 20 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 you | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 shortens | obj |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 you | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 l8r | punct |
| 24 | l8r | l8r | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Combi NumType=Ord | 21 you | conj |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 later | punct |
| 26 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 l8r | advmod |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 later | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 m8 | punct |
| 29 | m8 | m8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 l8r | conj |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 mate | punct |
| 31 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 m8 | appos |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 mate | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shortens | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shorten | present | Text speak | words | with letters and numbers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sound | present | letters and numbers | like letters = letter | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:13.
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. 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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