--- title: A wrong apostrophe in a plural is so common on shop signs («apple's… — Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones · tree and pragmatics description: A wrong apostrophe in a plural is so common on shop signs («apple's 50p») that it has a nickname, the greengrocer's apostrophe. Who acts: wrong apostrophe, apostrophe. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wrong apostrophe, apostrophe), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:006-spelling-plurals.lesson:16 # text = A wrong apostrophe in a plural is so common on shop signs («apple's 50p») that it has a nickname, the greengrocer's apostrophe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 006-spelling-plurals.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): R6-punct-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 plural plural NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 shop shop NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 15 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 p p NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 nickname nickname NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 greengrocer greengrocer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 appos _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a wrong apostrophe in a plural | | | shop signs | | apple 50 p *obl*; common *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | apostrophe | a nickname | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nickname=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. **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:006-spelling-plurals.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): R6-punct-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/15/) - next →: [Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/6-spelling-plurals/)