--- title: Weather is rain, sun and wind; whether means if, as in "I don't know… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: Weather is rain, sun and wind; whether means if, as in "I don't know whether to go". Who acts: Weather, UK teaching guides. 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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 (Weather, UK teaching guides), 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:14 # text = Weather is rain, sun and wind; whether means if, as in "I don't know whether to go". # 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 ×3 1 Weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 10 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 if if SCONJ IN _ 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 as as ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 in in SCONJ IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:ccomp 20 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 24 . . 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 | **is a** | present | Weather | rain and sun and wind | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent if=Topic | | 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | some UK teaching guides *= guide* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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:language:012-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre.lesson:14`. **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 ×3. **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…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/13/) - next →: [Spelling traps: their, there, they're…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/)