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title: In Scotland a "wean" is a child; apostrophe rules work the same with… — Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging · tree and pragmatics
description: In Scotland a "wean" is a child; apostrophe rules work the same with any noun: "the wean's ball". Who acts: wean, apostrophe rules. A sentence of the lesson «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 16

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In Scotland a "wean" is a child; apostrophe rules work the same with any noun: "the wean's ball".

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**Who acts:** wean, apostrophe rules · **What happens:** be, work · **To what, where:** child, Scotland, same

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wean, apostrophe rules), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:034-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging.lesson:16
# text = In Scotland a "wean" is a child; apostrophe rules work the same with any noun: "the wean's ball".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 034-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wean	wean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	noun	noun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:det
22	wean	wean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:parataxis
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a wean | a child |  | Scotland |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work** | present | apostrophe rules | the same |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent same=Material |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:034-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging.lesson:16`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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