--- title: A sign on a door says "Womens changing room". Fix it. — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: A sign on a door says "Womens changing room". Fix it. Test 10 · ★ 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 wrong. --- [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/t10/) [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/) / t10 # Test 10 · ★ · The apostrophe war A sign on a door says "Womens changing room". Fix it. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sign, Womens, you · **What happens:** say, change, fix · **To what, where:** Womens, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 · ★ 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/#t10). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A sign on a door says "Womens changing room". ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t10:1 # text = A sign on a door says "Womens changing room". 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Womens women NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a sign on a door | Womens | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent women=Topic | | 2 | **change** *in a quote* | gerund | Womens *not said here* | room | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient | 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:* Fix it. ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t10:2 # text = Fix it. 1 Fix fix VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fix** | imperative | you *not said here* | room | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Womens' changing room ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t10:o1:1 # text = Womens' changing room 1 Womens women NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 changing change VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | gerund | Womens | room | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Women's changing room ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t10:o2:1 # text = Women's changing room 1 Women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 changing changing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Womens's changing room ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t10:o3:1 # text = Womens's changing room 1 Womens Womens PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 changing changing NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Woman's' changing room ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t10:o4:1 # text = Woman's' changing room 1 Woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ _ 4 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change** | gerund | | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | **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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