Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 3
For example, a girl in London kicks her ball over the fence; she knocks on the door with her dad and asks politely, and the neighbour is happy to hand it back.
Who acts: girl, neighbour · What happens: kick, knock, ask, be, hand back · To what, where: ball, fence, door, neighbour
This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of the everyday 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 (girl, neighbour), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kicks | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kicks | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 London | case |
| 7 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | nmod |
| 8 | kicks | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ball | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kicks | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 fence | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fence | det |
| 13 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kicks | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 knocks | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 knocks | nsubj |
| 16 | knocks | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kicks | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 door | det |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knocks | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 dad | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dad | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knocks | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 asks | cc |
| 24 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 knocks | conj |
| 25 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 24 asks | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 happy | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 happy | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 neighbour | det |
| 29 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 happy | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 happy | cop |
| 31 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kicks | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 hand | mark |
| 33 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 happy | xcomp |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hand | obj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 hand | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 kicks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | present | a girl in London | girl's ball | the fence | for example | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Patient over fence=Location | ||
| 2 | knock | present | girl | the door | with girl's dad | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | girl not said here | politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the neighbour | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hand back | to-infinitive | the neighbour not said here | neighbour | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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