--- title: It's means it is or it has; its means belonging to it and, like his… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics description: It's means it is or it has; its means belonging to it and, like his and hers, has no apostrophe. Who acts: It, place, hers. 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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 (It, place, hers), 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:7 # text = It's means it is or it has; its means belonging to it and, like his and hers, has no apostrophe. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:ccomp 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=12:cc 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 hers her PRON PRP Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **mean** | present | It | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **be** | present | place | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | place | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **belong** | gerund | | | place | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **have** | present | hers *= she* | no apostrophe | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Patient | 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:7`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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. 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