--- title: Some questions have two accepted answers: James's book and James' bo… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: Some questions have two accepted answers: James's book and James' book are both used, and even famous places disagree: St James' Park in Newcastle, St James's Park in London; pick one style and stick to it, and copy official names exactly. Who acts: questions, famous places. 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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 (questions, famous places), 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:4 # text = Some questions have two accepted answers: James's book and James' book are both used, and even famous places disagree: St James' Park in Newcastle, St James's Park in London; pick one style and stick to it, and copy official names exactly. # 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 ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 5 accepted accept VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 answers answer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 8 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 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 17 aux:pass _ _ 16 both both ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 even even ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 disagree disagree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 25 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod:desc _ _ 26 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 ' 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 parataxis _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Newcastle Newcastle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 St St PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:desc _ _ 33 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 's 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 Park Park PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 39 pick pick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 40 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 stick stick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 copy copy VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 49 official official ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 names name NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ _ 51 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=50:advmod 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | some questions | two accepted answers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Patient | | 2 | **accept** | participle | | | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **use** | present · passive | | James's book and James's book | | | | both *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **disagree** | present | famous places | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pick** | infinitive | some questions *not said here* | one style | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Patient | | 6 | **stick** | infinitive | some questions *not said here* | | style | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Patient | | 7 | **copy** | infinitive | some questions *not said here* | official names | | | | exactly *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | 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:4`. **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. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/3/) - next →: [The apostrophe war, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/)