The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 17

Mr Hal, who sits on his porch at number 9, says «kids these days» at everyone, until Mia draws him a picture of his old dog — now he waves whenever she passes.

Who acts: Mr Hal, Mia, Mrs · What happens: sit, say, draw, wave, pass · To what, where: porch, everyone, picture, Hal · 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 Hal, Mia, 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	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Hal	compound
2	Hal	Hal	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 says	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sits	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sits	nsubj
5	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Hal	acl:relcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 porch	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 porch	nmod:poss
8	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 number	case
10	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sits	obl
11	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 number	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hal	punct
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	«	«	PUNCT	_	15 kids	punct
15	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 days	compound
16	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 days	det
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 says	obj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 everyone	case
20	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 says	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 everyone	punct
22	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 draws	mark
23	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 draws	nsubj
24	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 draws	iobj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 picture	det
27	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 draws	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 dog	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 dog	nmod:poss
30	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 dog	amod
31	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 picture	nmod
32	—	-	PUNCT	_	35 waves	punct
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 waves	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 waves	nsubj
35	waves	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 says	parataxis
36	whenever	whenever	SCONJ	_	38 passes	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 passes	nsubj
38	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 waves	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 says	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Mr Hal			Hal's porch		at number	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on porch=Location
2	say speech: assert	present	Mr Hal			everyone	day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	draw	present	Mia	a picture of Hal's old dog	Hal				vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary picture=Result
4	wave	present	Mia				now		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pass	present	Mrs						vn occur-48.3-1 «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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:17.

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 ×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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