--- title: A contraction is a short form with an apostrophe where letters are m… — Homophones and near-homophones · tree and pragmatics description: A contraction is a short form with an apostrophe where letters are missing: they're, you're, it's, who's. Who acts: contraction, short form. A sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Homophones and near-homophones](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/) / 27 # Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 27 A contraction is a short form with an apostrophe where letters are missing: they're, you're, it's, who's. **Who acts:** contraction, short form · **What happens:** be, miss · **To what, where:** short form, letters, form This is a sentence of the lesson «Homophones and near-homophones» of the english 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 (contraction, short form), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:27 # text = A contraction is a short form with an apostrophe where letters are missing: they're, you're, it's, who's. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson # annotation = 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 ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 contraction contraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 11 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 missing miss VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj 16 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nsubj 19 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 acl _ _ 22 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a contraction | a short form | | | | with a apostrophe | tree rules | | 2 | **miss** | present · passive | | letters | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | present | a short form *not said here* | form | | | | | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:english:011-homophones-and-near-homophones.lesson:27`. **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 ×2. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Homophones and near-homophones, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/23/) - next →: [Homophones and near-homophones, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/28/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/)