Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 6
To get a ball back from a neighbour's garden, knock and ask politely rather than climbing the fence.
Who acts: you · What happens: get back, knock, ask, climb · To what, where: ball, garden, fence
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 (you), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 knock | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ball | det |
| 4 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 get | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 neighbour | det |
| 8 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 neighbour | case |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knock | punct |
| 12 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 knock | conj |
| 15 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 16 rather | advmod |
| 16 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 ask | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 climbing | mark |
| 18 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 ask | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fence | det |
| 20 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 climbing | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 knock | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | to-infinitive | you not said here | a ball | a neighbour's garden | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ball=Theme from garden=Source | |||
| 2 | knock | imperative | you not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | climb | gerund | you not said here | the fence | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fence=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:6.
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, 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.
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