--- title: Text speak shortens words with letters and numbers that sound like t… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: Text speak shortens words with letters and numbers that sound like them: c (see), u (you), l8r (later), m8 (mate). Who acts: Text speak, letters. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Text speak, letters), 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:13 # text = Text speak shortens words with letters and numbers that sound like them: c (see), u (you), l8r (later), m8 (mate). # 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 1 Text text NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 speak speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shortens shorten VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sound sound VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 11 like like ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 c c NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 16 see see VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 17 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 u you PRON PRP Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 conj _ _ 20 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 l8r l8r NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord 21 conj _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 24 advmod _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 m8 m8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 conj _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 31 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shorten** | present | Text speak | words | | | | with letters and numbers | tree rules | | 2 | **sound** | present | letters and numbers | | | | | like letters *= letter* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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:13`. **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. **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: [Spelling traps: their, there, they're…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/12/) - next →: [Spelling traps: their, there, they're…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/)