The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 18
Maddie's ball gets chewed to shreds by the neighbour's Staffie (a Staffordshire bull terrier, a strong, stocky dog); «Tough luck, love.» Her mum buys a new one: «Some folk are like that, pet.
Who acts: Staffie, mum, folk · What happens: chew, buy, be · To what, where: ball, new one · 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 (Staffie, mum, folk), 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 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ball | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Maddie | case |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chewed | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chewed | aux:pass |
| 5 | chewed | chew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 shreds | case |
| 7 | shreds | shred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 chewed | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Staffie | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 neighbour | det |
| 10 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Staffie | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 neighbour | case |
| 12 | Staffie | Staffie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 chewed | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 17 terrier | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 terrier | det |
| 15 | Staffordshire | Staffordshire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 terrier | compound |
| 16 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 terrier | compound |
| 17 | terrier | terrier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Staffie | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dog | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dog | det |
| 20 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dog | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 strong | punct |
| 22 | stocky | stocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dog | amod |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 terrier | parataxis |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 dog | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 luck | punct |
| 26 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 28 luck | punct |
| 27 | Tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 luck | amod |
| 28 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chewed | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 love | punct |
| 30 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 luck | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chewed | punct |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 chewed | punct |
| 33 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mum | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 buys | nsubj |
| 35 | buys | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 chewed | parataxis |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 one | det |
| 37 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 one | amod |
| 38 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 buys | obj |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 folk | punct |
| 40 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 42 folk | punct |
| 41 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 folk | det |
| 42 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 that | nsubj |
| 43 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 that | cop |
| 44 | like | like | ADP | _ | 45 that | case |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 buys | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 pet | punct |
| 47 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 that | vocative |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 chewed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | present · passive | the neighbour's Staffie | Maddie's ball | to shreds | tree rules | |||
| 2 | buy | present | dog's mum | a new one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | some folk | like that; pet vocative | 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:18.
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. 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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