Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / school / Language / The apostrophe war / 3

The apostrophe war, sentence 3

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, s · What happens: grow, fight, take, drop, run, sign · To what, where: apostrophes, 2009, apostrophe, 2012, 2001

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 (Grown ups, Birmingham, bookshop, Protection Society), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

amodpunctnsubjadvmodauxcaseoblpunctnsubjparataxisobjcasenmod:posscompoundoblcaseoblpunctdetnsubjapposconjnmod:possobjcaseoblpunctccdetcompoundcompoundnsubjconjcaseoblcasenmodpunctrootGrownVERB-PUNCTupsNOUNreallyADVdoAUXfightVERBaboutADPitPRON:PUNCTBirminghamPROPNtookVERBapostrophesNOUNoffADPitsPRONstreetNOUNsignsNOUNinADP2009NUM,PUNCTtheDETbookshopNOUNWaterstonesPROPNdroppedVERBitsPRONapostropheNOUNinADP2012NUM,PUNCTandCCONJanDETApostrophePROPNProtectionPROPNSocietyPROPNranVERBfromADP2001NUMtoADP2019NUM.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1GrowngrowVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 upsamod
2--PUNCT_1 Grownpunct
3upsupNOUNNumber=Plur6 fightnsubj
4reallyreallyADV_6 fightadvmod
5dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 fightaux
6fightfightVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
7aboutaboutADP_8 itcase
8ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 fightobl
9::PUNCT_11 tookpunct
10BirminghamBirminghamPROPNNumber=Sing11 tooknsubj
11tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 fightparataxis
12apostrophesapostropheNOUNNumber=Plur11 tookobj
13offoffADP_16 signscase
14itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 signsnmod:poss
15streetstreetNOUNNumber=Sing16 signscompound
16signssignNOUNNumber=Plur11 tookobl
17ininADP_18 2009case
1820092009NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card11 tookobl
19,,PUNCT_23 droppedpunct
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 bookshopdet
21bookshopbookshopNOUNNumber=Sing23 droppednsubj
22WaterstonesWaterstonesPROPNNumber=Sing21 bookshopappos
23droppeddropVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 tookconj
24itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 apostrophenmod:poss
25apostropheapostropheNOUNNumber=Sing23 droppedobj
26ininADP_27 2012case
2720122012NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card23 droppedobl
28,,PUNCT_34 ranpunct
29andandCCONJ_34 rancc
30anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 Societydet
31ApostropheApostrophePROPNNumber=Sing32 Protectioncompound
32ProtectionProtectionPROPNNumber=Sing33 Societycompound
33SocietySocietyPROPNNumber=Sing34 rannsubj
34ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 tookconj
35fromfromADP_36 2001case
3620012001NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card34 ranobl
37totoADP_38 2019case
3820192019NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card36 2001nmod
39..PUNCT_6 fightpunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
narrate
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1growparticiplevn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2fightpresent · do-supportGrown upsabout svn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent about it=Theme
3takepastBirminghamapostrophes2009off s's street signsvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Theme off sign=Initial_Location
4droppastthe bookshops's apostrophe2012vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apostrophe=Theme in 2012=Destination
5runpasta Protection Society2001 to 2019vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from 2001=Trajectory
6signsnom 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, 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/15-the-apostrophe-war/3/