Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 8
For a plural owner that already ends in s, add only an apostrophe: the girls' coats, the teachers' room.
Who acts: plural owner, you · What happens: end, add · To what, where: s, apostrophe
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 (plural owner, you), 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 | _ | 4 owner | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 owner | det |
| 3 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 owner | amod |
| 4 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 add | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ends | nsubj |
| 6 | already | already | ADV | _ | 7 ends | advmod |
| 7 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 owner | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 s | case |
| 9 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ends | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 owner | punct |
| 11 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 apostrophe | advmod |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 apostrophe | det |
| 14 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 add | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 coats | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girls | det |
| 17 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 coats | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 girls | case |
| 19 | coats | coat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 apostrophe | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 room | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 teachers | det |
| 22 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 room | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 22 teachers | case |
| 24 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coats | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 add | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | a plural owner | s | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | a apostrophe | for a plural owner | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Patient |
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:8.
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): 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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