The apostrophe war, sentence 1

Where it sits tells you how many owners there are: the dog's bowl (one dog), the dogs' bowl (several dogs sharing), the dog's bowls (one dog, lots of bowls).

Who acts: p, many owners, several dogs · What happens: sit, tell, be, sharing · To what, where: you, bowl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The apostrophe war» of the language 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 (p, many owners, several dogs), 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 sits	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	csubj
4	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tells	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 many	advmod
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 owners	amod
8	owners	owner	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 are	nsubj
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 are	expl
10	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tells	ccomp
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 bowl	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dog	det
13	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowl	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 dog	case
15	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tells	parataxis
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 dog	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 dog	nummod
18	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowl	appos
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 dog	punct
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bowl	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dogs	det
22	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 bowl	nmod:poss
23	'	's	PART	_	22 dogs	case
24	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bowl	conj
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 sharing	punct
26	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dogs	amod
27	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sharing	nsubj
28	sharing	sharing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 bowl	acl
29	)	)	PUNCT	_	28 sharing	punct
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bowls	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dog	det
32	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bowls	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 dog	case
34	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tells	parataxis
35	(	(	PUNCT	_	37 dog	punct
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 dog	nummod
37	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bowls	appos
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 lots	punct
39	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bowls	conj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 bowls	case
41	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 lots	nmod
42	)	)	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tells	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	sit	present	p				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	present			you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
3	does	present	many owners			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sharing	gerund	several dogs	the dogs's bowl not said here			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:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:1.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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