--- title: They're means they are; their means belonging to them; there means i… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: They're means they are; their means belonging to them; there means in that place, or is used in "there is". Who acts: rules, means. 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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 (rules, means), 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:5 # text = They're means they are; their means belonging to them; there means in that place, or is used in "there is". # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nsubj 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:cop 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 means means NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:ccomp 9 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 22 in in SCONJ IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 24 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:":_ 27 . . 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 | rules *= rule* | means | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **belong** | gerund | rules's means *not said here* | | rules *= rule* | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **mean** | present | rules *= rule* *not said here* | | | there | | in that place | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in place=Attribute | | 4 | **use** | present · passive | rules *= rule* *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | 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:5`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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