Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 3

Apostrophes never make ordinary plurals: a market sign saying "Banana's £1" makes people giggle, because it should simply be "Bananas £1".

Who acts: Apostrophes, market sign, people, apostrophe · What happens: not make, say, make, giggle, be · To what, where: ordinary plurals, £, people, Bananas · 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 (Apostrophes, market sign, people, 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	Apostrophes	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 make	advmod
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plurals	amod
5	plurals	plural	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 makes	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sign	det
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sign	compound
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 makes	nsubj
10	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sign	acl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 £	punct
12	Banana	banana	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 £	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Banana	case
14	£	£	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	obj
15	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 £	flat
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 £	punct
17	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 make	advcl
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 makes	obj
19	giggle	giggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 makes	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Bananas	punct
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	27 Bananas	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 Bananas	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 Bananas	aux
24	simply	simply	ADV	_	27 Bananas	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 Bananas	cop
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Bananas	punct
27	Bananas	banana	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 makes	advcl
28	£	£	SYM	_	27 Bananas	flat
29	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 £	nummod
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 £	punct
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 make	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not make	present	Apostrophes	ordinary plurals		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plural=Product
2	say speech: assert	gerund	a market sign not said here	Banana's £		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent £=Topic
3	make	present	a market sign	people		tree rules
4	giggle	infinitive	people not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	should	apostrophe	Bananas	simply property	tree rules

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:3.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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