Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 2
Little helpers live inside big words: definitely has "finite" in the middle (de-finite-ly), and there's "a rat" in sep-a-rat-e; "too" has one o too many, because it means extra.
Who acts: Little helpers, rat, rat e · What happens: live, have, be, mean · To what, where: big words, finite, middle, sep, one, extra
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 (Little helpers, rat, rat e), 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 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 helpers | amod |
| 2 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 6 words | case |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 has | punct |
| 8 | definitely | definitely | ADV | _ | 9 has | advmod |
| 9 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | parataxis |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 finite | punct |
| 11 | finite | finite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 has | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 finite | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 middle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 middle | det |
| 15 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 has | obl |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 ly | punct |
| 17 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ly | dep |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 de | punct |
| 19 | finite | finite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ly | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 ly | punct |
| 21 | ly | ly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 has | parataxis |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 ly | punct |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 's | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 's | cc |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 's | expl |
| 26 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | parataxis |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 rat | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 rat | det |
| 29 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 's | nsubj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 rat | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 sep | case |
| 32 | sep | sep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 's | obl |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 e | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 e | det |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 a | punct |
| 36 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 e | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 e | punct |
| 38 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sep | conj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 has | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 too | punct |
| 41 | too | too | ADV | _ | 43 has | advmod |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 too | punct |
| 43 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 e | acl:relcl |
| 44 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 has | obj |
| 45 | o | o | ADV | _ | 47 many | advmod |
| 46 | too | too | ADV | _ | 47 many | advmod |
| 47 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 has | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 means | punct |
| 49 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 51 means | mark |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 means | nsubj |
| 51 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 has | advcl:relcl |
| 52 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 means | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Little helpers | big words | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside word=Location | ||||
| 2 | have | present | finite | the middle | definitely property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finite=Patient | |||
| 3 | be | present | a rat | sep and a rat e; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sep=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | present | a rat e not said here | one | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mean | present | rat | extra | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=Topic |
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:2.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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