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title: For a plural owner that already ends in s, add only an apostrophe: t… — Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging · tree and pragmatics
description: For a plural owner that already ends in s, add only an apostrophe: the girls' coats, the teachers' room. Who acts: plural owner, you. 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 ev
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# Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 8

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For a plural owner that already ends in s, add only an apostrophe: the girls' coats, the teachers' room.

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**Who acts:** plural owner, you · **What happens:** end, add · **To what, where:** s, apostrophe

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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 (plural owner, you), 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:8
# text = For a plural owner that already ends in s, add only an apostrophe: the girls' coats, the teachers' room.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	plural	plural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	s	s	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	appos	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present | a plural owner |  |  | s |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | a apostrophe |  |  |  | for a plural owner | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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): R8-pos-agree ×1. **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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