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title: "Would have" is the correct written form, not "would of". — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: "Would have" is the correct written form, not "would of". A sentence of the lesson «Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 10

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"Would have" is the correct written form, not "would of".

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**What happens:** have, write, be · **To what, where:** correct written form

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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: 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:10
# text = "Would have" is the correct written form, not "would of".
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the correct written form |  |  |  |  | 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:language:012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.lesson:10`.

**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. **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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