Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 15
The correct spelling is separate; "there's a rat in separate" is a popular trick.
Who acts: correct spelling, rat · What happens: be · To what, where: popular trick · 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 (correct spelling, rat), 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 spelling | det |
| 2 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spelling | amod |
| 3 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 separate | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 separate | cop |
| 5 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 trick | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 's | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 's | expl |
| 9 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 trick | csubj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rat | det |
| 11 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 's | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 separate | case |
| 13 | separate | separate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rat | nmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 's | punct |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 trick | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 trick | det |
| 17 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trick | amod |
| 18 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 separate | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 separate | punct |
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 correct spelling | separate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a rat in separate | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a popular trick | 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:15.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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