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title: The Apostrophe Protection Society was set up in 2001 and closed in 2… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics
description: The Apostrophe Protection Society was set up in 2001 and closed in 2019; its founder John Richards said "ignorance and laziness" had won, while others said apostrophes aren't that important. Who acts: founder, ignorance, others, apostrophes. A sentence of the lesson «The apostrophe war» of the langu
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# The apostrophe war, sentence 14

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The Apostrophe Protection Society was set up in 2001 and closed in 2019; its founder John Richards said "ignorance and laziness" had won, while others said apostrophes aren't that important.

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**Who acts:** founder, ignorance, others, apostrophes · **What happens:** set up, closed, say, win, not be · **To what, where:** Protection Society, 2001, 2019 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (founder, ignorance, others, apostrophes), 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:14
# text = The Apostrophe Protection Society was set up in 2001 and closed in 2019; its founder John Richards said "ignorance and laziness" had won, while others said apostrophes aren't that important.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Apostrophe	Apostrophe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Protection	Protection	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	2001	2001	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	closed	closed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	2019	2019	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	founder	founder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Richards	Richards	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ignorance	ignorance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	laziness	laziness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advcl
31	apostrophes	apostrophe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	that	that	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	ccomp	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed voice=narrator

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set up** | past · passive |  | the Protection Society |  | 2001 |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 2001=Destination |
| 2 | **closed** | participle |  |  |  | 2019 |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Society's founder |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **win** | past · perfect | ignorance and laziness |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **is** | present | apostrophes |  |  |  |  | important, that *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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 ×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/).

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