--- title: "Its" with no apostrophe means belonging to it ("The dog wagged its… — The big language quiz · tree and pragmatics description: "Its" with no apostrophe means belonging to it ("The dog wagged its tail"); "it's" means it is or it has. Who acts: goose, dog, it. A sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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/40-the-big-language-quiz/6/) [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 big language quiz](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/) / 6 # The big language quiz, sentence 6 "Its" with no apostrophe means belonging to it ("The dog wagged its tail"); "it's" means it is or it has. **Who acts:** goose, dog, it · **What happens:** mean, belong, wag, be, have · **To what, where:** goose, tail · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «The big language quiz» 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 (goose, dog, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:6 # text = "Its" with no apostrophe means belonging to it ("The dog wagged its tail"); "it's" means it is or it has. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 040-the-big-language-quiz.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 ×2 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 2 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 6 det _ _ 6 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 belonging belong VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 ccomp _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ _ 11 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 13 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 wagged wag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 15 punct _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 " " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ _ 25 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:obj 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:cop 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present | goose | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **belong** | gerund | | | goose | | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **wag** *in a quote* | past | the dog | goose's tail | | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | it | | | | | mean *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | present | goose | | | | | | 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:040-the-big-language-quiz.lesson:6`. **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 ×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: [The big language quiz, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/5/) - next →: [The big language quiz, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/40-the-big-language-quiz/)