The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 21
Jake climbs Mr Grimshaw's fence and smashes a pot; he pays for it from three weeks' pocket money.
Who acts: Jake · What happens: climb, smash, pay · To what, where: fence, pot, pocket money
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 (Jake), 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 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 climbs | nsubj |
| 2 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fence | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Grimshaw | Grimshaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mr | flat |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Mr | case |
| 6 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbs | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smashes | cc |
| 8 | smashes | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbs | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pot | det |
| 10 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smashes | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 pays | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pays | nsubj |
| 13 | pays | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 smashes | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 pays | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 three | case |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 weeks | nummod |
| 18 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 money | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 18 weeks | case |
| 20 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 money | compound | ||
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pays | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present | Jake | Mr's fence | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smash | present | Jake not said here | a pot | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | present | Jake | pocket money 's three weeks | for pot | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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:21.
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): R6-punct-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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