--- title: Both James's book and James' book are used; style guides differ, and… — The apostrophe war · tree and pragmatics description: Both James's book and James' book are used; style guides differ, and what matters is being consistent. Who acts: style guides. A sentence of the lesson «The apostrophe war» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/8/) [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/) / 8 # The apostrophe war, sentence 8 Both James's book and James' book are used; style guides differ, and what matters is being consistent. **Who acts:** style guides · **What happens:** use, differ, matter, be · **To what, where:** book 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 (style guides), 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:8 # text = Both James's book and James' book are used; style guides differ, and what matters is being consistent. # 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 ×1 1 Both both CCONJ CC _ 2 cc:preconj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 2 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 James James PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ' 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 style style NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 guides guide NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 nsubj _ _ 18 matters matter VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 csubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 cop _ _ 21 consistent consistent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **use** | present · passive | | James's book and James's book | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **differ** | present | style guides | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **matter** | present | | | | | | | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** | present · progressive | | | | | | consistent *property* | tree rules | 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:8`. **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 ×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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/7/) - next →: [The apostrophe war, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/)