Teachers, visitors and the playground, sentence 15

If someone takes your ball, you ask for it back politely, then tell a teacher; grabbing it back starts fights.

Who acts: someone, you, grabbing · What happens: take, ask, tell, grab back, start · To what, where: ball, teacher, fights · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Teachers, visitors and the playground» 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 (someone, you, grabbing), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 takes	mark
2	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	advcl
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ball	nmod:poss
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 ask	nsubj
8	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ask	obl
11	back	back	ADV	_	12 politely	advmod
12	politely	politely	ADV	_	8 ask	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tell	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 tell	advmod
15	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 teacher	det
17	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tell	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grabbing	punct
19	grabbing	grab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 starts	csubj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grabbing	obj
21	back	back	ADV	_	19 grabbing	advmod
22	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 ask	parataxis
23	fights	fight	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 starts	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ask	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take a condition, not said to happen	present	someone	your ball				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	present	you				for ball; politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a teacher	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
4	grab back	gerund		ball				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	start	present	grabbing	fights				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Eventuality

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:257-school-adults-and-the-playground.lesson:15.

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): R7-rel-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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