The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 32
A small kind act, like carrying shopping or drawing a picture, can soften a grumpy person.
Who acts: small kind act · What happens: carry, draw, soften · To what, where: shopping, picture, grumpy person
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 (small kind act), 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 | 4 act | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 act | amod |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 act | compound |
| 4 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soften | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 carrying | punct |
| 6 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 7 carrying | mark |
| 7 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 act | acl |
| 8 | shopping | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carrying | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 drawing | cc |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 carrying | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 picture | det |
| 12 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 act | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 soften | aux |
| 15 | soften | soften | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 17 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 person | amod |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soften | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 soften | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | a small kind act not said here | shopping | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | a small kind act not said here | a picture | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent picture=Theme | ||||
| 3 | soften | can | a small kind act | a grumpy person | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent person=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:32.
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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