--- title: ★★★ How many apostrophes are needed in "Its the mens football match… — Apostrophes: missing letters and belon… · tree and pragmatics description: ★★★ How many apostrophes are needed in "Its the mens football match and its kick-off is at six oclock"? Test 7 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / [Apostrophes: missing letters and belon…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/) / t7 # Test 7 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging ★★★ How many apostrophes are needed in "Its the mens football match and its kick-off is at six oclock"? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** need, be · **To what, where:** ★, football match, six oclock · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 of lesson 34 «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» of the English course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t7:1 # text = ★★★ How many apostrophes are needed in "Its the mens football match and its kick-off is at six oclock"? 1 ★ ★ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ★ ★ X FW Foreign=Yes 1 dep _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ★ ★ ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 apostrophes apostrophe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 needed need VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 mens men NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 match match NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 18 kick kick NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 off off NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 oclock oclock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 " " PUNCT '' _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **need** | present · passive | | ★ | | Its football match and its kick off | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | six oclock | | | tree rules | 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} Two ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t7:o1:1 # text = Two 1 Two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Three ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t7:o2:1 # text = Three 1 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Five ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t7:o3:1 # text = Five 1 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Four ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t7:o4:1 # text = Four 1 Four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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