--- title: Where it sits tells you how many owners there are: the dog's bowl (o… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: Where it sits tells you how many owners there are: the dog's bowl (one dog), the dogs' bowl (several dogs sharing), the dog's bowls (one dog, lots of bowls). Who acts: p, many owners, several dogs. 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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 (p, many owners, several dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:1 # text = Where it sits tells you how many owners there are: the dog's bowl (one dog), the dogs' bowl (several dogs sharing), the dog's bowls (one dog, lots of bowls). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 015-the-apostrophe-war.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 csubj _ _ 4 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 7 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 owners owner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 10 expl _ _ 10 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 16 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 ' 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 26 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sharing sharing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 29 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 bowls bowl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 parataxis _ _ 35 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 37 punct _ _ 36 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:conj 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 conj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 bowls bowl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 42 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | p | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **does** | present | many owners | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sharing** | gerund | several dogs | the dogs's bowl *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | 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:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:1`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [The apostrophe war, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/0/) - next →: [The apostrophe war, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/)