--- title: Plurals that don't end in s just add 's: the children's toys, the me… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: Plurals that don't end in s just add 's: the children's toys, the men's toilets, the people's choice; plurals ending in s add only ': the ladies' toilets. Who acts: Plurals. 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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 (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:2 # text = Plurals that don't end in s just add 's: the children's toys, the men's toilets, the people's choice; plurals ending in s add only ': the ladies' toilets. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Plurals plural NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 2 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 end end VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 s s NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 just just ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 add add VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 toys toy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 toilets toilet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 choice choice NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=20:conj 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 plurals plural NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 28 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 s s NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 31 add add VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 32 only only ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 34 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 ' 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 toilets toilet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 | **not** **end** | present · do-support | Plurals | | | 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 | **end** | gerund | plurals *not said here* | | | s | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | plurals | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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:language:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/1/) - next →: [The apostrophe war, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/)