--- title: A contraction squeezes two words into one with an apostrophe, like c… — Verbs: doing words and being words · tree and pragmatics description: A contraction squeezes two words into one with an apostrophe, like could've for could have. Who acts: contraction. A sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being words» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/13/) [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/) / [Verbs: doing words and being words](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/) / 13 # Verbs: doing words and being words, sentence 13 A contraction squeezes two words into one with an apostrophe, like could've for could have. **Who acts:** contraction · **What happens:** squeeze, have · **To what, where:** two words This is a sentence of the lesson «Verbs: doing words and being words» 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 (contraction), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:13 # text = A contraction squeezes two words into one with an apostrophe, like could've for could have. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:det 2 contraction contraction NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:compound 3 squeezes squeeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 like like SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 15 for for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **squeeze** | present | a contraction | two words | | | | into one with a apostrophe | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent word=Material into one=Product | | 2 | **have** | could | a contraction *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:003-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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: [Verbs: doing words and being words, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/12/) - next →: [Verbs: doing words and being words, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/3-verbs-doing-words-and-being-words/)