--- title: The correct spelling is separate; "there's a rat in separate" is a p… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: The correct spelling is separate; "there's a rat in separate" is a popular trick. Who acts: correct spelling, rat. 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. --- [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/15/) [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/) / 15 # Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 15 The correct spelling is separate; "there's a rat in separate" is a popular trick. **Who acts:** correct spelling, rat · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** popular trick · **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 (correct spelling, rat), 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:15 # text = The correct spelling is separate; "there's a rat in separate" is a popular trick. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 correct correct ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 separate separate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 8 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 9 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 csubj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 separate separate NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 trick trick NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | the correct spelling | | | | | separate *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a rat in separate | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | | a popular trick | | | | | tree rules | 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:15`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Spelling traps: their, there, they're…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/14/) - next →: [Spelling traps: their, there, they're…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/)