The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 15

Mrs Platt at number 22 shuts her curtains when kids say hello and rings the council about hopscotch, so the kids play in the park instead.

Who acts: Mrs, kids · What happens: shut, say, ring, play · To what, where: curtains, hello, council, park · 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 (Mrs, kids), 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	Mrs	Mrs	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shuts	nsubj
2	Platt	Platt	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs	flat
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 number	case
4	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mrs	nmod
5	22	22	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 number	nummod
6	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 curtains	nmod:poss
8	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shuts	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 say	advmod
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shuts	advcl
12	hello	hello	NOUN	_	11 say	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rings	cc
14	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 say	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 council	det
16	council	council	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rings	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 hopscotch	case
18	hopscotch	hopscotch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rings	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 play	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 play	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kids	det
22	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 play	nsubj
23	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shuts	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 park	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 park	det
26	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 play	obl
27	instead	instead	ADV	_	23 play	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shuts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shut	present	Mrs at number	Mrs's curtains			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	kids	hello			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
3	ring	present	kids not said here	the council		about hopscotch	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location council=Theme
4	play	present	the kids		the park	instead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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