--- title: Aussie kid: "Me mates footy boots are heaps muddy." ("Footy" is foot… — Apostrophes: missing letters and belon… · tree and pragmatics description: Aussie kid: "Me mates footy boots are heaps muddy." ("Footy" is football, "heaps" means very.) One mate. Where is the apostrophe in standard writing? 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Where is the apostrophe in standard writing? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Aussie kid, Footy, football, apostrophe · **What happens:** be, mean · **To what, where:** heaps, football This is test 8 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Aussie kid: "Me mates footy boots are heaps muddy." ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t8:1 # text = Aussie kid: "Me mates footy boots are heaps muddy." 1 Aussie aussie ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nmod _ _ 6 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 7 footy footy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 boots boot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Aussie kid Me | heaps | | | | | 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. *Sentence 2:* ("Footy" is football, "heaps" means very.) ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t8:2 # text = ("Footy" is football, "heaps" means very.) 1 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Footy footy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 heaps heap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Footy | football | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | football | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | *Sentence 3:* One mate. ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t8:3 # text = One mate. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 2 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 3 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. *Sentence 4:* Where is the apostrophe in standard writing? ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t8:4 # text = Where is the apostrophe in standard writing? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 writing writing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the apostrophe in standard writing | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} mate's ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t8:o1:1 # text = mate's 1 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} muddy's ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t8:o2:1 # text = muddy's 1 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} boot's ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t8:o3:1 # text = boot's 1 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} mates' ```conllu # sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t8:o4:1 # text = mates' 1 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ ``` 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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