The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 27
Neighbours who seem grumpy often have a reason, such as damaged plants, tiredness or loneliness.
Who acts: Neighbours · What happens: seem, have, damage · To what, where: reason
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 (Neighbours), 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 | Neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Neighbours | acl:relcl |
| 4 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seem | xcomp |
| 5 | often | often | ADV | _ | 6 have | advmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 plants | punct |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 plants | case |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 such | fixed |
| 12 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 plants | amod |
| 13 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reason | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tiredness | punct |
| 15 | tiredness | tiredness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 plants | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 loneliness | cc |
| 17 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tiredness | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | 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 | seem | present | Neighbours | grumpy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Neighbours | a reason | such damaged plants and tiredness or loneliness; often property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | |||
| 3 | damage | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:27.
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): R7-rel-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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