Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 6
The apostrophe goes exactly where the letters are missing, not where the words used to meet.
Who acts: apostrophe, letters, words · What happens: go, be, not use, meet
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, letters, words), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 apostrophe | det |
| 2 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 missing | advmod |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 missing | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 letters | det |
| 7 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 missing | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 missing | cop |
| 9 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 used | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 used | advmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 used | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 words | det |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 used | nsubj |
| 15 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 missing | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 used | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the apostrophe | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the letters | exactly, missing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not use | past | the words | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | meet | to-infinitive | the words not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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:6.
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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