The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 30
A real apology and a simple agreement can turn a quarrel with a neighbour into peace.
Who acts: real apology · What happens: turn · To what, where: quarrel, peace
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 (real apology), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 apology | det |
| 2 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apology | amod |
| 3 | apology | apology | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turn | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 agreement | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 agreement | det |
| 6 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 agreement | amod |
| 7 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 apology | conj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 turn | aux |
| 9 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 quarrel | det |
| 11 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turn | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 neighbour | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 neighbour | det |
| 14 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quarrel | nmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 peace | case |
| 16 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turn | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | can | a real apology and a simple agreement | a quarrel | peace | with a neighbour | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent quarrel=Theme into peace=Trajectory |
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:30.
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): no change. 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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