The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 16

Some kids shout «old witch» at her through the letterbox; she tells their parents, and they're grounded for a week.

Who acts: kids, Mrs · What happens: shout, tell, ground · To what, where: old witch, letterbox, parents, kids · 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 (kids, Mrs), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 kids	det
2	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shout	nsubj
3	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 witch	amod
6	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shout	obj
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 witch	punct
8	at	at	ADP	_	12 letterbox	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 shout	obl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 letterbox	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 letterbox	det
12	letterbox	letterbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shout	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tells	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tells	nsubj
15	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shout	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 parents	nmod:poss
17	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tells	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grounded	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grounded	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grounded	nsubj
21	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 grounded	aux:pass
22	grounded	ground	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tells	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 week	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 week	det
25	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grounded	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shout	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	present	some kids	old witch		the letterbox		Mrs obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	present	Mrs		kids's parents				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
3	ground	present · passive		kids = kid			week		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination

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:16.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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