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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 choose	nsubj
2	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 names	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 names	amod
5	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 choose	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 keeps	punct
7	Sainsbury	Sainsbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 keeps	nsubj
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Sainsbury	case
9	keeps	keep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 names	nmod
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 apostrophe	nmod:poss
11	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keeps	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
13	Harrods	Harrods	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 choose	conj
15	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	14 has	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dropped	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dropped	cc
18	Waterstones	Waterstones	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dropped	nsubj
19	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 has	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 apostrophe	nmod:poss
21	apostrophe	apostrophe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dropped	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 2012	case
23	2012	2012	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 dropped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 causing	punct
25	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 dropped	advcl
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 argument	det
27	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 causing	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 newspapers	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 newspapers	det
30	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 causing	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 choose	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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, 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.

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