--- title: "Grammar police" is a jokey name for people who correct others' spel… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: "Grammar police" is a jokey name for people who correct others' spelling; correcting people can feel rude, so do it kindly or not at all. Who acts: Grammar police, people, correcting, others. 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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 (Grammar police, people, correcting, others), 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:17 # text = "Grammar police" is a jokey name for people who correct others' spelling; correcting people can feel rude, so do it kindly or not at all. # 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): no change 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ _ 2 Grammar grammar NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 jokey jokey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 correct correct VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 ' 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 correcting correct VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 csubj _ _ 18 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 conj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Grammar police | a jokey name | | | | for people | tree rules | | 2 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | present | people | others's spelling | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spelling=Patient | | 3 | **correct** *speech: disagree* | gerund | people | | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **feel** | can | correcting | | | | | rude *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **do** | infinitive | correcting *not said here* | spelling | | | | kindly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 6 | **spell** | | others | | | | | | nom spelling «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:17`. **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): no change. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/16/) - next →: [Silent letters and the mystery of -ough, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/13-silent-letters-and-the-mystery-of-ough/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/12-spelling-traps-their-there-theyre/)