Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 13
For names ending in s, both James's book and James' book are accepted; many schools teach James's.
Who acts: names, many schools · What happens: end, accept, teach · To what, where: s, book, James
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 (names, many schools), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 names | case |
| 2 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 accepted | obl |
| 3 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 names | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 s | case |
| 5 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ending | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 names | punct |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 book | det:predet |
| 8 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 book | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 James | case |
| 10 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accepted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 book | cc |
| 12 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 book | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 12 James | case |
| 14 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 book | conj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 accepted | aux:pass |
| 16 | accepted | accept | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 teach | punct |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 schools | amod |
| 19 | schools | school | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 teach | nsubj |
| 20 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 accepted | parataxis |
| 21 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 teach | obj |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 James | case |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | gerund | names not said here | s | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | accept | present · passive | James's book and James's book | for names | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | present | many schools | James | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent james=Recipient |
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:13.
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 ×1, R2-punct-next ×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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