The apostrophe war, sentence 6
The greengrocer's apostrophe is the name for a wrong apostrophe in a plural, like "Banana's 30p"; a greengrocer is a shop selling fruit and vegetables.
Who acts: apostrophe, greengrocer, plural shop · What happens: be, sell · To what, where: name, plural shop, fruit
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, greengrocer, plural shop), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 greengrocer | det |
| 2 | greengrocer | greengrocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apostrophe | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 greengrocer | case |
| 4 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 apostrophe | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 apostrophe | det |
| 10 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 apostrophe | amod |
| 11 | apostrophe | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 shop | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 plural | det |
| 14 | plural | plural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 shop | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 p | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 p | case |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 p | punct |
| 18 | Banana | Banana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 p | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Banana | case |
| 20 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 p | nummod |
| 21 | p | p | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 plural | obl |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 p | punct |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 shop | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 greengrocer | det |
| 25 | greengrocer | greengrocer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shop | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 shop | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 shop | det |
| 28 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 name | parataxis |
| 29 | selling | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 shop | acl |
| 30 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 selling | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 vegetables | cc |
| 32 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 fruit | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | 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 | is a | present | the greengrocer's apostrophe | the name | for a wrong apostrophe | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | a greengrocer | a plural shop | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sell | gerund | a plural shop not said here | fruit and vegetables | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme |
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:6.
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): R5-strong ×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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