Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones, sentence 16
A wrong apostrophe in a plural is so common on shop signs («apple's 50p») that it has a nickname, the greengrocer's apostrophe.
Who acts: wrong apostrophe, apostrophe · What happens: be, have · To what, where: shop signs, nickname
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones» 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 (wrong apostrophe, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 apostrophe | det |
| 2 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apostrophe | amod |
| 3 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 common | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 plural | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 plural | det |
| 6 | plural | plural | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 apostrophe | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 common | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 common | advmod |
| 9 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 signs | case |
| 11 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 signs | compound |
| 12 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 common | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 p | punct |
| 14 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 18 p | punct |
| 15 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 p | compound |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 apple | case |
| 17 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 p | nummod |
| 18 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 common | obl |
| 19 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 18 p | punct |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 p | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 has | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 has | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 common | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 nickname | det |
| 25 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 greengrocer | det |
| 28 | greengrocer | greengrocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 apostrophe | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 greengrocer | case |
| 30 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 nickname | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 common | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a wrong apostrophe in a plural | shop signs | apple 50 p obl; common property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | apostrophe | a nickname | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nickname=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:006-spelling-plurals.lesson:16.
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. 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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