The apostrophe war, sentence 13

It's means it is or it has; its means belonging to it and has no apostrophe, like his and her.

Who acts: It, apostrophe · What happens: be, have, mean, belong · To what, where: apostrophe · 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 (It, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 means	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	cop
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 is	nsubj
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 has	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 is	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 means	punct
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 means	nmod:poss
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	parataxis
12	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 means	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 belonging	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 has	cc
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 belonging	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 apostrophe	det
18	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 her	punct
20	like	like	ADP	_	23 her	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 her	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 her	cc
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 belonging	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			mean property	tree rules
2	be	present	apostrophe				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	apostrophe				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	belong	gerund			apostrophe	like London	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
6	have	present		no apostrophe			vn birth-28.2-1 «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:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:13.

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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