Rival teams and the older bully, sentence 6

Big Gaz from Year 8 grabs Sam's new ball at the rec (the recreation ground, a public park) and boots it into the river: «Go fetch, little man.» It floats towards the weir, a low wall across the river where water pours over and pulls hard.

Who acts: Big Gaz, ball, water · What happens: grab, boot, float, pour over, pull · To what, where: new ball, rec, ball, river, weir

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rival teams and the older bully» 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 (Big Gaz, ball, water), 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	Big	Big	PROPN	_	2 Gaz	flat
2	Gaz	Gaz	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Year	case
4	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Gaz	nmod
5	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 Year	flat
6	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Sam	Sam	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ball	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Sam	case
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ball	amod
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 rec	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rec	det
13	rec	rec	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grabs	obl
14	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 ground	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
16	recreation	recreation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ground	compound
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rec	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 park	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 park	det
20	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 park	amod
21	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ground	appos
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 ground	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 boots	cc
24	boots	boot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grabs	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 boots	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 river	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 river	det
28	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 boots	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 fetch	punct
30	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 Go	punct
31	Go	Go	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 fetch	compound
32	fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 river	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 man	punct
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fetch	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 fetch	punct
37	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 fetch	punct
38	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 floats	nsubj
39	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grabs	parataxis
40	towards	towards	ADP	_	42 weir	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 weir	det
42	weir	weir	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 floats	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 wall	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 wall	det
45	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 wall	amod
46	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 weir	appos
47	across	across	ADP	_	49 river	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 river	det
49	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 wall	nmod
50	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	52 pours	advmod
51	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 pours	nsubj
52	pours	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 river	acl:relcl
53	over	over	ADV	_	52 pours	advmod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 pulls	cc
55	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 pours	conj
56	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	55 pulls	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grabs	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grab	present	Big Gaz from Year	Sam's new ball	the rec		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	boot	present	Big Gaz from Year not said here	ball	the river		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into river=Destination
3	float	present	ball		the weir		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards weir=Destination
4	pour over	present	water			over property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	pull	present	water not said here			hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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