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title: Two is the number 2; too means also or very; to goes before a verb o… — Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends · tree and pragmatics
description: Two is the number 2; too means also or very; to goes before a verb or shows direction. Who acts: Two. 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.
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# Spelling traps: their, there, they're and friends, sentence 8

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Two is the number 2; too means also or very; to goes before a verb or shows direction.

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**Who acts:** Two · **What happens:** be, mean, go, show · **To what, where:** number, verb, direction

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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 (Two), 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:8
# text = Two is the number 2; too means also or very; to goes before a verb or shows direction.
# 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	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	conj	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Two | the number |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | present |  |  |  | a verb |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before verb=Location |
| 4 | **show** | present |  | direction |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient |

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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.

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**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:8`.

**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/).

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