The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 1
Mr Grimshaw comes out holding it like a dead rat: «That's the third this month.
Who acts: Mr Grimshaw, That · What happens: come out, hold, be · To what, where: football · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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 (Mr Grimshaw, That), 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 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Grimshaw | compound |
| 2 | Grimshaw | Grimshaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | PART | _ | 3 comes | compound:prt |
| 5 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 comes | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 holding | obj |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 rat | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rat | det |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rat | amod |
| 10 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 holding | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
| 12 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 16 third | punct |
| 13 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 third | nsubj |
| 14 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 third | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 third | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 comes | parataxis |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 month | det |
| 18 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 third | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | Mr Grimshaw | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | Mr Grimshaw not said here | football | like a dead rat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | That | month | third property | tree rules |
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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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