Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 10
Ordinary plurals never take an apostrophe: bananas, apples, cars.
Who acts: Ordinary plurals · What happens: not take · To what, where: apostrophe
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 (Ordinary plurals), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 plurals | amod |
| 2 | plurals | plural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 take | advmod |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 apostrophe | det |
| 6 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 bananas | punct |
| 8 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 apostrophe | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 apples | punct |
| 10 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bananas | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cars | punct |
| 12 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bananas | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | present | Ordinary plurals | a apostrophe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Theme |
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, 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:english:034-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging.lesson:10.
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): R8-pos-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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