The apostrophe war, sentence 15
Plurals not ending in s add 's for belonging: children's, men's, women's, people's.
Who acts: Plurals · What happens: not end, add, belong · To what, where: s, children
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 (Plurals), 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 | Plurals | plural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 add | nsubj |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ending | advmod |
| 3 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Plurals | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 s | case |
| 5 | s | s | NOUN | Typo=Yes | 3 ending | obl |
| 6 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 add | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 belonging | case |
| 9 | belonging | belong | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 add | advcl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 children | punct |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 belonging | obj |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 children | case |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 men | punct |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 children | conj |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 men | case |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 women | punct |
| 17 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 children | conj |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 women | case |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 people | punct |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 children | conj |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 people | case |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 add | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- character
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not end | gerund | Plurals not said here | s | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | infinitive | Plurals | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 's=Patient | |||||
| 3 | belong | gerund | Plurals not said here | children and men and women and people | 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:15.
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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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