--- title: Some English words sound the same but are spelled differently and me… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: Some English words sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things: they're (they are), their (belonging to them) and there (that place): "They're going to their house over there." Who acts: English words, words. A sentence of the lesson «Spelling traps: their, there, they're an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/0/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Spelling traps: their, there, they're…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/) / 0 # Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 0 Some English words sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things: they're (they are), their (belonging to them) and there (that place): "They're going to their house over there." **Who acts:** English words, words · **What happens:** sound, spell, mean, belong, be, go · **To what, where:** same, different things, words, house · **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 (English words, words), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.lesson:0 # text = Some English words sound the same but are spelled differently and mean different things: they're (they are), their (belonging to them) and there (that place): "They're going to their house over there." # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obj _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 spelled spell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 10 differently differently ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 13 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 17 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 30 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nsubj 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 21 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 20 punct _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 24 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 25 belonging belong VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 parataxis _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 25 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 31 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 parataxis _ _ 34 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 35 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ _ 37 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 parataxis _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 over over ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 39 punct _ _ 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | present | some English words | the same | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme | | 2 | **spell** | present · passive | some English words *not said here* | | | | | differently *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP» | | 3 | **mean** | present | some English words *not said here* | different things | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 4 | **belong** | gerund | | | words *= word* | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | words *= word* | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | words *= word* | | | words's house; there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | 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:language:012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.lesson:0`. **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, 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/). - ← previous: [Grammar puzzles, part one, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/15/) - next →: [Spelling traps: their, there, they're…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/)