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title: Which shows the toys belong to the women? — Apostrophes: missing letters and belon… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which shows the toys belong to the women? Test 9 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 9 · Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging

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Which shows the toys belong to the women?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** toys · **What happens:** show, belong · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t9:1
# text = Which shows the toys belong to the women?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **belong** | present | the toys |  |  |  |  | to the women | 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}

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the womens' toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t9:o1:1
# text = the womens' toys
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	womens	women	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.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the women toy's

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t9:o2:1
# text = the women toy's
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t9:o3:1
# text = the womans' toys
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	womans	woman	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.

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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

```conllu
# sent_id = question:english:34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging:t9:o4:1
# text = the women's toys
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	women	woman	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.

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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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