The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 7
Sam's dad goes round, Sam says sorry about the tomatoes, and they agree: the kids play at the far end and knock to ask, and Mr Grimshaw hands balls back.
Who acts: dad, Sam, tomatoes, kids, Mr · What happens: go round, say, agree, play, knock, ask · To what, where: far end, balls · 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 (dad, Sam, tomatoes, kids), 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 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dad | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Sam | case |
| 3 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 7 | Sam | Sam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | conj |
| 9 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | xcomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 tomatoes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tomatoes | det |
| 12 | tomatoes | tomato | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sorry | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 agree | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 agree | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 agree | nsubj |
| 16 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 goes | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 play | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kids | det |
| 19 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 play | nsubj |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 agree | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 23 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 end | amod |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 play | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 knock | cc |
| 26 | knock | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 play | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 ask | mark |
| 28 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 knock | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hands | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hands | cc |
| 31 | Mr | Mr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 hands | nsubj |
| 32 | Grimshaw | Grimshaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Mr | flat |
| 33 | hands | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 play | conj |
| 34 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 hands | obj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 hands | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go round | present | Sam's dad | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: apologize | present | Sam | sorry property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | present | tomatoes = tomato | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | play | present | the kids | at the far end | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | knock | present | the kids not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the kids not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | hand back | present | Mr | balls | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=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:7.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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