--- title: The dog's bowl means one dog's bowl; the dogs' bowl means one bowl s… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: The dog's bowl means one dog's bowl; the dogs' bowl means one bowl shared by several dogs; the dog's bowls means one dog with several bowls. Who acts: bowl, bowls. A sentence of the lesson «The apostrophe war» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [The apostrophe war](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/) / 7 # The apostrophe war, sentence 7 The dog's bowl means one dog's bowl; the dogs' bowl means one bowl shared by several dogs; the dog's bowls means one dog with several bowls. **Who acts:** bowl, bowls · **What happens:** mean, share · **To what, where:** bowl, one bowl, one dog 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 (bowl, bowls), 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:7 # text = The dog's bowl means one dog's bowl; the dogs' bowl means one bowl shared by several dogs; the dog's bowls means one dog with several 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): no change 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 ' 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 bowl bowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 shared share VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 dogs dog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl:agent _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 bowls bowl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 bowls bowl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **mean** | present | the dog's bowl | one dog's bowl | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Topic | | 2 | **mean** | present | the dogs's bowl | one bowl | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Topic | | 3 | **share** | participle | | one bowl *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **mean** | present | the dog's bowls | one dog | | | | with several bowls | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Topic | 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:7`. **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): no change. **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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/6/) - next →: [The apostrophe war, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/)