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title: Plurals not ending in s add 's for belonging: children's, men's, wom… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics
description: Plurals not ending in s add 's for belonging: children's, men's, women's, people's. Who acts: Plurals. A sentence of the lesson «The apostrophe war» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The apostrophe war, sentence 15

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Plurals not ending in s add 's for belonging: children's, men's, women's, people's.

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**Who acts:** Plurals · **What happens:** not end, add, belong · **To what, where:** s, children

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The apostrophe war» of the language 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 (Plurals), 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:15
# text = Plurals not ending in s add 's for belonging: children's, men's, women's, people's.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Plurals	plural	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	ending	end	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
5	s	s	NOUN	NN	Typo=Yes	3	obl	_	_
6	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_
9	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
18	's	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **end** | gerund | Plurals *not said here* |  |  | s |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Plurals |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 's=Patient |
| 3 | **belong** | gerund | Plurals *not said here* | children and men and women and people |  |  |  |  | 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:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:15`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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