Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 17
O'clock is short for "of the clock", so its apostrophe also marks missing letters.
Who acts: O'clock, apostrophe · What happens: be, mark · To what, where: missing letters
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 (O'clock, apostrophe), 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 | O'clock | o'clock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 short | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 short | cop |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 clock | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 clock | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 clock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clock | det |
| 8 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 short | obl |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 clock | punct |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 marks | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 marks | advmod |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 apostrophe | nmod:poss |
| 13 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marks | nsubj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 marks | advmod |
| 15 | marks | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 short | parataxis |
| 16 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 letters | amod |
| 17 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 marks | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 short | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | O'clock | for the clock; short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mark | present | clock's apostrophe | missing letters | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Destination |
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:17.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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