Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 7

It's means it is or it has; its means belonging to it and, like his and hers, has no apostrophe.

Who acts: It, place, hers · What happens: mean, be, have, belong · To what, where: place, apostrophe · 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 (It, place, hers), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 means	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	aux
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 is	nsubj
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 is	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 means	nmod:poss
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	parataxis
12	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 means	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 belonging	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 has	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hers	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	20 hers	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hers	nmod:poss
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hers	cc
20	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 has	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hers	punct
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 belonging	conj
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 apostrophe	det
24	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	mean	present	It			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	place			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	place			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	belong	gerund			place	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	have	present	hers = she	no apostrophe		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Patient

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:7.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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