--- title: «It's» means «it is» or «it has»; «its» means belonging to it, with… — Homophones and near-homophones · tree and pragmatics description: «It's» means «it is» or «it has»; «its» means belonging to it, with no apostrophe, just like his and hers. Who acts: It, test. 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 clause. --- [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/9/) [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/) / 9 # Homophones and near-homophones, sentence 9 «It's» means «it is» or «it has»; «its» means belonging to it, with no apostrophe, just like his and hers. **Who acts:** It, test · **What happens:** be, have, mean, belong · **To what, where:** hers, test · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (It, test), 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:9 # text = «It's» means «it is» or «it has»; «its» means belonging to it, with no apostrophe, just like his and hers. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 » » PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 » » PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 just just ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 29 like like SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 hers her PRON PRP Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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** | present | It | | | | | mean *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | test | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | test | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **belong** *not said to happen* | gerund | | hers *= she* | test | | | with no apostrophe | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | 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:9`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/8/) - next →: [Homophones and near-homophones, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/11-homophones-and-near-homophones/)