--- title: Little helpers live inside big words: definitely has "finite" in the… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: Little helpers live inside big words: definitely has "finite" in the middle (de-finite-ly), and there's "a rat" in sep-a-rat-e; "too" has one o too many, because it means extra. Who acts: Little helpers, rat, rat e. 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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 (Little helpers, rat, rat e), 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:2 # text = Little helpers live inside big words: definitely has "finite" in the middle (de-finite-ly), and there's "a rat" in sep-a-rat-e; "too" has one o too many, because it means extra. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 helpers helper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 inside inside ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 definitely definitely ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ _ 11 finite finite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 17 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 dep _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 finite finite ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 21 ly ly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 26 expl _ _ 26 's be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 sep sep NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ _ 36 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=36:punct 38 e e NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 39 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ _ 41 too too ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ 43 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 acl:relcl _ _ 44 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 obj _ _ 45 o o ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 46 too too ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 47 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 obj _ _ 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 because because SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 50 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 51 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=47:advcl:relcl 52 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=51:xcomp 53 . . 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 | **live** | present | Little helpers | | | big words | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside word=Location | | 2 | **have** | present | | finite | | the middle | | definitely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finite=Patient | | 3 | **be** | present | a rat | | | sep and a rat e; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sep=Location | | 4 | **have** | present | a rat e *not said here* | one | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **mean** | present | rat | extra | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent extra=Topic | 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:2`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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