The apostrophe war, sentence 2
Plurals that don't end in s just add 's: the children's toys, the men's toilets, the people's choice; plurals ending in s add only ': the ladies' toilets.
Who acts: Plurals · What happens: not end, add, end · To what, where: s
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 | 9 add | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 end | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 end | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 end | advmod |
| 5 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Plurals | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 s | case |
| 7 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | obl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 add | advmod |
| 9 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 add | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 toys | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 children | det |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 toys | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 children | case |
| 15 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 's | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 toilets | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 toilets | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 men | case |
| 20 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 toys | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 choice | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 choice | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 people | case |
| 25 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 toys | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 plurals | punct |
| 27 | plurals | plural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 add | nsubj |
| 28 | ending | end | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 plurals | acl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 s | case |
| 30 | s | s | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 ending | obl |
| 31 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 add | parataxis |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 ' | advmod |
| 33 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 add | punct |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 toilets | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ladies | det |
| 36 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 toilets | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 36 ladies | case |
| 38 | toilets | toilet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 toys | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 add | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not end | present · do-support | Plurals | 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 | end | gerund | plurals not said here | s | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | present | plurals | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:2.
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): R3-conj-first ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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