Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 9
For a plural that does not end in s, add 's: the children's toys, the men's changing room.
Who acts: plural, you · What happens: not end, add · To what, where: s, 's
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, 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 | _ | 3 plural | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plural | det |
| 3 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 add | obl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 end | nsubj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 end | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 end | advmod |
| 7 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 plural | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 s | case |
| 9 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 end | punct |
| 11 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | 's | 's | NOUN | _ | 11 add | obj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 add | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 toys | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 children | case |
| 17 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 add | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 room | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 room | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 men | case |
| 22 | changing | changing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 room | compound |
| 23 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 toys | appos |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 add | 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 | not end | present · do-support | a plural | s | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | 's | for a plural | 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:9.
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): R5-strong ×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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