--- title: Grown-ups really do fight about it: Birmingham took apostrophes off… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: Grown-ups really do fight about it: Birmingham took apostrophes off its street signs in 2009, the bookshop Waterstones dropped its apostrophe in 2012, and an Apostrophe Protection Society ran from 2001 to 2019. Who acts: Grown ups, Birmingham, bookshop, Protection Society. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grown ups, Birmingham, bookshop, Protection Society), 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:3 # text = Grown-ups really do fight about it: Birmingham took apostrophes off its street signs in 2009, the bookshop Waterstones dropped its apostrophe in 2012, and an Apostrophe Protection Society ran from 2001 to 2019. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 amod _ _ 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ _ 3 ups up NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 5 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 about about ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obl _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 Birmingham Birmingham PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 apostrophes apostrophe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 off off ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 2009 2009 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 bookshop bookshop NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 Waterstones Waterstones PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 23 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 apostrophe apostrophe NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 2012 2012 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 Apostrophe Apostrophe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 Protection Protection PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Society Society PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 2001 2001 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 obl _ _ 37 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 2019 2019 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 36 nmod _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **fight** | present · do-support | Grown ups | | | | | about s | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about it=Theme | | 3 | **take** | past | Birmingham | apostrophes | | 2009 | | off s's street signs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Theme off sign=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **drop** | past | the bookshop | s's apostrophe | | 2012 | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Theme in 2012=Destination | | 5 | **run** | past | a Protection Society | | | 2001 to 2019 | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 2001=Trajectory | | 6 | **sign** | | s | | | | | | nom sign «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:3`. **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): R6-punct-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, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/2/) - next →: [The apostrophe war, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/)