--- title: In a cartoon, a sign says "Ladies toilet's". Fix it. — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: In a cartoon, a sign says "Ladies toilet's". Fix it. Test 7 · ★ 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/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/) / [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/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · The apostrophe war In a cartoon, a sign says "Ladies toilet's". Fix it. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sign, you · **What happens:** say, fix · **To what, where:** Ladies toilet, cartoon, toilet · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a sign says "Ladies toilet's". ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t7:1 # text = In a cartoon, a sign says "Ladies toilet's". 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 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 Ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 compound _ _ 10 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | a sign | Ladies toilet | | a cartoon | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent toilet=Theme in cartoon=Manner | 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:t7:2 # 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* | toilet | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Ladie's toilets ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t7:o1:1 # text = Ladie's toilets 1 Ladie Ladie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 toilets toilet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Ladies' toilets ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t7:o2:1 # text = Ladies' toilets 1 Ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 toilets toilet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Ladies toilet's' ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t7:o3:1 # text = Ladies toilet's' 1 Ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 compound _ _ 2 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Lady's toilet's ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:15-the-apostrophe-war:t7:o4:1 # text = Lady's toilet's 1 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 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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