--- title: Your mate's market stall sign says "Fresh egg's £2." He goes "what,… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: Your mate's market stall sign says "Fresh egg's £2." He goes "what, it's proper English, innit." What's the fix? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 15 «The apostrophe war» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/t1/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [The apostrophe war](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · The apostrophe war Your mate's market stall sign says "Fresh egg's £2." He goes "what, it's proper English, innit." What's the fix? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** market stall sign, mate, sign, egg, fix · **What happens:** say, sign, go, be · **To what, where:** Fresh egg, proper English · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 15 «The apostrophe war» of the language 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/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Your mate's market stall sign says "Fresh egg's £2." ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t1:1 # text = Your mate's market stall sign says "Fresh egg's £2." 1 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 stall stall NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 £ £ SYM $ _ 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Your mate's market stall sign | Fresh egg | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent egg=Topic | | 2 | **sign** | | Your mate | | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: poss=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. *Sentence 2:* He goes "what, it's proper English, innit." ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t1:2 # text = He goes "what, it's proper English, innit." 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 innit innit NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | sign | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | egg | proper English and innit | | | | | tree rules | *Sentence 3:* What's the fix? ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t1:3 # text = What's the fix? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 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 fix fix NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the fix | | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Fresh eggs £2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t1:o1:1 # text = Fresh eggs £2 1 Fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 3 £ £ SYM $ _ 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Fresh egg's' £2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t1:o2:1 # text = Fresh egg's' £2 1 Fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 egg egg NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 5 £ £ SYM $ _ 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Fresh eggs' £2 ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t1:o3:1 # text = Fresh eggs' £2 1 Fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ' 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 £ £ SYM $ _ 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} It's fine as it is ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t1:o4:1 # text = It's fine as it is 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | present | it | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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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