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title: «There» is a place (it has «here» inside it), «their» means belongin… — Homophones and near-homophones · tree and pragmatics
description: «There» is a place (it has «here» inside it), «their» means belonging to them, and «they're» is short for «they are». Who acts: Homophones. 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 cl
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# Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 4

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«There» is a place (it has «here» inside it), «their» means belonging to them, and «they're» is short for «they are».

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**Who acts:** Homophones · **What happens:** be, have, mean, belong · **To what, where:** place, meaning, Homophones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Homophones), 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:4
# text = «There» is a place (it has «here» inside it), «their» means belonging to them, and «they're» is short for «they are».
# 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj
3	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	obj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj
15	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	»	»	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	obl	_	_
33	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:cop
36	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present · passive |  | meaning |  | place |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | Homophones *= homophone* |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **belong** | gerund |  |  | Homophones *= homophone* |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | Homophones *= homophone* |  |  |  |  | short *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:4`.

**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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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