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title: For a plural that does not end in s, add 's: the children's toys, th… — Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging · tree and pragmatics
description: For a plural that does not end in s, add 's: the children's toys, the men's changing room. Who acts: plural, 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 every clause.
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# Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 9

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For a plural that does not end in s, add 's: the children's toys, the men's changing room.

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**Who acts:** plural, you · **What happens:** not end, add · **To what, where:** s, 's

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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, 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:9
# text = For a plural that does not end in s, add 's: the children's toys, the men's changing 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	plural	plural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	end	end	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	s	s	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	add	add	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	's	's	NOUN	NN	_	11	obj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	changing	changing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **not** **end** | present · do-support | a plural |  |  | s |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | 's |  |  |  | for a plural | tree rules |

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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:9`.

**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, R7-rel-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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