Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 17
"Grammar police" is a jokey name for people who correct others' spelling; correcting people can feel rude, so do it kindly or not at all.
Who acts: Grammar police, people, correcting, others · What happens: be, correct, feel, do, spell · To what, where: jokey name, spelling
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 (Grammar police, people, correcting, others), 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 | _ | 3 police | punct |
| 2 | Grammar | grammar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 police | compound |
| 3 | police | police | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 police | punct |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 name | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 7 | jokey | jokey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 name | amod |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 name | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 correct | nsubj |
| 12 | correct | correct | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 people | acl:relcl |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spelling | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 others | case |
| 15 | spelling | spelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 correct | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 correcting | punct |
| 17 | correcting | correct | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 feel | csubj |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 correcting | obj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 feel | aux |
| 20 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 correct | conj |
| 21 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 feel | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 feel | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | obj |
| 26 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 not | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 kindly | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 kindly | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Grammar police | a jokey name | for people | tree rules | |||
| 2 | correct speech: disagree | present | people | others's spelling | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient | ||||
| 3 | correct speech: disagree | gerund | people | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | can | correcting | rude property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | do | infinitive | correcting not said here | spelling | kindly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | spell | others | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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:17.
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): no change. 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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