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description: Identify the correctly punctuated form denoting the toys belonging to a group of children. Exam question 1 of lesson 34 «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» of the English course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Exam question 1 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging

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Identify the correctly punctuated form denoting the toys belonging to a group of children.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, punctuated form, toys · **What happens:** identify, punctuate, denote, belong · **To what, where:** punctuated form, toys

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 34 «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» of the English course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:e1:1
# text = Identify the correctly punctuated form denoting the toys belonging to a group of children.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	punctuated	punctuate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	denoting	denote	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the punctuated form |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 2 | **punctuate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | correctly *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **denote** | gerund | the punctuated form *not said here* | the toys |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot toy=Topic |
| 4 | **belong** | gerund | the toys *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a group of children | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the childrens toys'

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:e1:o1:1
# text = the childrens toys'
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	childrens	children	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the children'ss toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:e1:o2:1
# text = the children'ss toys
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	children'ss	children'ss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the children's toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:e1:o3:1
# text = the children's toys
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the childrens' toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:e1:o4:1
# text = the childrens' toys
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	childrens	children	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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