Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 11
Its (no apostrophe) means belonging to it; it's means it is or it has.
Who acts: apostrophe, it · What happens: mean, belong, be, have · To what, where: apostrophe · 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, it), 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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 apostrophe | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 apostrophe | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 apostrophe | det |
| 4 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 apostrophe | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 means | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 belonging | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 means | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 means | nsubj |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | cop |
| 13 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 is | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 means | ccomp |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 has | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 is | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | apostrophe's apostrophe | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | belong | gerund | apostrophe | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | it | mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | present | apostrophe | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | present | apostrophe | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:11.
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.
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