Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 1

For missing letters, the apostrophe sits exactly where the letters vanished: in "can't" it stands for the missing "no" of "cannot", like a sticky note saying "something was here".

Who acts: apostrophe, letters, sticky note · What happens: sit, vanish, stand, say, be · To what, where: ca, something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» of the english 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 (apostrophe, letters, sticky note), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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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