The apostrophe war, sentence 5
An apostrophe shows missing letters or shows belonging; it is not used to make plurals.
Who acts: apostrophe · What happens: show, not use, make · To what, where: missing letters, belonging, apostrophe, plurals
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 (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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 apostrophe | det |
| 2 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 letters | amod |
| 5 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shows | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 shows | cc |
| 7 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | conj |
| 8 | belonging | belong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shows | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 used | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 used | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 used | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 used | advmod |
| 13 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shows | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 used | advcl |
| 16 | plurals | plural | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a apostrophe | missing letters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | show | present | a apostrophe not said here | belonging | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent belong=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not use | present · passive | apostrophe | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | plurals | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plural=Product |
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:5.
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 ×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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