The apostrophe war, sentence 16
Plurals ending in s add just an apostrophe for belonging: ladies', the girls' changing room.
Who acts: Plurals, ladies · What happens: end, add, change · To what, where: s, apostrophe, room
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, ladies), 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 | 5 add | nsubj |
| 2 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Plurals | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 s | case |
| 4 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ending | obl |
| 5 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 add | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 apostrophe | det |
| 8 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 add | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 belonging | case |
| 10 | belonging | belong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 apostrophe | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 ladies | punct |
| 12 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 belonging | obj |
| 13 | ', | ', | SCONJ | _ | 17 changing | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girls | det |
| 15 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 room | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 15 girls | case |
| 17 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 ladies | acl |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 changing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 add | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | gerund | Plurals not said here | s | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | Plurals | a apostrophe | for belonging | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Patient | |||
| 3 | change | gerund | ladies not said here | the girls's room | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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: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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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