The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 24
Mr Grimshaw is very cross, then says, «At least you came back.
Who acts: Mr, you · What happens: be, say, come back · To what, where: least · 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, you), 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 | 5 cross | nsubj |
| 2 | Grimshaw | Grimshaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Mr | flat |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cross | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 cross | advmod |
| 5 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 says | advmod |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cross | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 10 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | At | at | ADP | _ | 12 least | case |
| 12 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 came | obl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mr | cross property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come back in a quote | past | you | least | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at least=Location |
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:24.
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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