The apostrophe war, sentence 7

The dog's bowl means one dog's bowl; the dogs' bowl means one bowl shared by several dogs; the dog's bowls means one dog with several bowls.

Who acts: bowl, bowls · What happens: mean, share · To what, where: bowl, one bowl, one dog

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 (bowl, bowls), 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 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowl	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 dog	nummod
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bowl	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 dog	case
9	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dogs	det
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bowl	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 dogs	case
14	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	nsubj
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	parataxis
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 bowl	nummod
17	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	obj
18	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 bowl	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 dogs	case
20	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dogs	amod
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 shared	obl:agent
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 means	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dog	det
24	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bowls	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 dog	case
26	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 means	nsubj
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	conj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 dog	nummod
29	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 means	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 bowls	case
31	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bowls	amod
32	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dog	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	the dog's bowl	one dog's bowl		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Topic
2	mean	present	the dogs's bowl	one bowl		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Topic
3	share	participle		one bowl not said here		tree rules
4	mean	present	the dog's bowls	one dog	with several bowls	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic

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:7.

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): no change. 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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