The apostrophe war, sentence 14
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 · What happens: set up, closed, say, win, not be · To what, where: Protection Society, 2001, 2019 · Speech: someone speaks here
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Society | det |
| 2 | Apostrophe | Apostrophe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Protection | compound |
| 3 | Protection | Protection | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Society | compound |
| 4 | Society | Society | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux:pass |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 2001 | case |
| 9 | 2001 | 2001 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 closed | cc |
| 11 | closed | closed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 set | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 2019 | case |
| 13 | 2019 | 2019 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 closed | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 founder | nmod:poss |
| 16 | founder | founder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 17 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 founder | appos |
| 18 | Richards | Richards | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 John | flat |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | parataxis |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ignorance | punct |
| 21 | ignorance | ignorance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 won | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 laziness | cc |
| 23 | laziness | laziness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ignorance | conj |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 ignorance | punct |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 won | aux |
| 26 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 said | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 28 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 said | mark |
| 29 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | advcl |
| 31 | apostrophes | apostrophe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 important | nsubj |
| 32 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 important | cop |
| 33 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 important | advmod |
| 34 | that | that | ADV | _ | 35 important | advmod |
| 35 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 said | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed voice=narrator
| # | 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 |
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: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.
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