--- title: Shops choose their own names: Sainsbury's keeps its apostrophe, Harr… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: Shops choose their own names: Sainsbury's keeps its apostrophe, Harrods has none, and Waterstones dropped its apostrophe in 2012, causing an argument in the newspapers. Who acts: Shops, Sainsbury, Harrods, Waterstones. A sentence of the lesson «The apostrophe war» of the language course of Mova's pr --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # The apostrophe war, sentence 10 Shops choose their own names: Sainsbury's keeps its apostrophe, Harrods has none, and Waterstones dropped its apostrophe in 2012, causing an argument in the newspapers. **Who acts:** Shops, Sainsbury, Harrods, Waterstones, names · **What happens:** choose, keep, have, drop, cause, name · **To what, where:** own names, apostrophe, none, 2012, argument, newspapers 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 (Shops, Sainsbury, Harrods, Waterstones), 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:10 # text = Shops choose their own names: Sainsbury's keeps its apostrophe, Harrods has none, and Waterstones dropped its apostrophe in 2012, causing an argument in the newspapers. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Shops shop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 choose choose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 Sainsbury Sainsbury PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod:poss 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 keeps keep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod:unmarked 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Harrods Harrods PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 Waterstones Waterstones PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNPS:Number=Plur 19 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 2012 2012 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 causing cause VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 26 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 argument argument NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 newspapers newspaper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **choose** | present | Shops | names's own names | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | | Sainsbury | shop's apostrophe | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | Harrods | none | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | | 4 | **drop** | past | Waterstones | shop's apostrophe | | 2012 | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Theme in 2012=Destination | | 5 | **cause** | gerund | Waterstones *not said here* | a argument | | the newspapers | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition argument=Patient | | 6 | **name** | | names *= name* | | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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:015-the-apostrophe-war.lesson:10`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The apostrophe war, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/9/) - next →: [The apostrophe war, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/)