--- title: For names ending in s, both James's book and James' book are accepte… — Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging · tree and pragmatics description: For names ending in s, both James's book and James' book are accepted; many schools teach James's. Who acts: names, many schools. A sentence of the lesson «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/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/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/) / [Apostrophes: missing letters and belon…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/34-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging/) / 13 # Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging, sentence 13 For names ending in s, both James's book and James' book are accepted; many schools teach James's. **Who acts:** names, many schools · **What happens:** end, accept, teach · **To what, where:** s, book, James This is a sentence of the lesson «Apostrophes: missing letters and belonging» of the english 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 (names, many schools), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:english:034-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging.lesson:13 # text = For names ending in s, both James's book and James' book are accepted; many schools teach James's. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = english # lesson = 034-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 3 ending end VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 s s NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det:predet _ _ 8 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 12 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 ' 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 15 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 accepted accept VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 teach teach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 21 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | gerund | names *not said here* | | | s | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **accept** | present · passive | | James's book and James's book | | | | for names | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | many schools | | James | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent james=Recipient | 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:english:034-apostrophes-missing-letters-and-belonging.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-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. 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