The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 35
Shouting rude words back at a cross neighbour makes things worse; walk away and tell your parents.
Who acts: Shouting · What happens: shout back, make, walk away, tell · To what, where: rude words, cross neighbour, things, parents · 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 (Shouting), 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 | Shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 makes | csubj |
| 2 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shouting | obj |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Shouting | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 neighbour | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 neighbour | det |
| 7 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 neighbour | compound |
| 8 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shouting | obl |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 makes | obj |
| 11 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 walk | punct |
| 13 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 makes | parataxis |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 walk | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 walk | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 parents | nmod:poss |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tell | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout back speech: express | gerund | rude words | a cross neighbour | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | present | Shouting | things | bad property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | |||
| 3 | walk away | infinitive | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | your parents | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient |
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:35.
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 ×2. 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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