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title: Definitely comes from "finite", meaning having an end: de-finite-ly. — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Definitely comes from "finite", meaning having an end: de-finite-ly. 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 11

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Definitely comes from "finite", meaning having an end: de-finite-ly.

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**What happens:** come, mean, have · **To what, where:** finite, end

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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:11
# text = Definitely comes from "finite", meaning having an end: de-finite-ly.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Definitely	definitely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	finite	finite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	meaning	mean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
9	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
15	finite	finite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	_
17	ly	ly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **come** | present |  |  |  | finite |  | definitely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from finite=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **mean** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | a end |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |

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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:11`.

**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, R7-rel-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/).

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