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        Create an action for adding a new annotation to the outset.

        Args:
            name: the name of the match to use for getting the annotation span, if None, use the
                whole span of each match
            ann:  either an Annotation which will be (deep) copied to create the new annotation, or
                a GetAnn helper for copying the annoation the helper returns. If this is specified the
                other parameters fo