The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 28
When your ball goes into someone's garden, the right thing is to knock and ask, not to climb in.
Who acts: ball · What happens: go, be, knock, ask, not climb · To what, where: garden, right thing
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 (ball), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 goes | advmod |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ball | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thing | advcl |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 6 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 garden | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 someone | case |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knock | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thing | det |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thing | amod |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thing | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 knock | mark |
| 15 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thing | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ask | cc |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 knock | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 climb | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 climb | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 climb | mark |
| 21 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 knock | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADV | _ | 21 climb | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | your ball | someone's garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the right thing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | knock | to-infinitive | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | not climb | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:28.
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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