The big language quiz, sentence 6

"Its" with no apostrophe means belonging to it ("The dog wagged its tail"); "it's" means it is or it has.

Who acts: goose, dog, it · What happens: mean, belong, wag, be, have · To what, where: goose, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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 (goose, dog, it), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Its	punct
2	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 means	nsubj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Its	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 apostrophe	case
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 apostrophe	det
6	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Its	nmod
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 means	ccomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 belonging	obl
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	15 wagged	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 wagged	punct
13	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 dog	det
14	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wagged	nsubj
15	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 means	parataxis
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wagged	obj
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 wagged	punct
19	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 wagged	punct
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 means	nsubj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 means	cop
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 's	punct
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 means	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 is	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 means	ccomp
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 has	cc
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 has	nsubj
30	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 means	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	goose				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	belong	gerund			goose		vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	wag in a quote	past	the dog	goose's tail			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	is	present	it			mean property	tree rules
5	have	present	goose				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:040-the-big-language-quiz.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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