The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 25
That's more than most.» Lily's grandad says, «Some folk have had hard lives, love.
Who acts: That, grandad, folk · What happens: be, say, have · To what, where: hard lives · 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 (That, grandad, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 more | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 most | case |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 more | obl |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 7 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
| 8 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 grandad | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Lily | case |
| 10 | grandad | grandad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 13 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 folk | det |
| 15 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | aux |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 says | ccomp |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lives | amod |
| 19 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 love | punct |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | vocative |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | That | than most; more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Lily's grandad | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | some folk | hard lives | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
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:25.
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, R8-pos-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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