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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (skittle alley, large silvered glass ball), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:books:042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson:32 # text = There is a skittle-alley (skittles = a game like bowling), and a little pond with gold-fish, a cockle-shell border, and in its middle a little pile of more cockle-shells topped by «a large silvered glass ball that reflected everything all wrong and had a very pleasing effect». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = books # lesson = 042-willows-ch5-part2-mole-end.lesson # annotation = 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 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 skittle skittle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ _ 6 alley alley NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 8 punct _ _ 8 skittles skittle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 = = PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 12 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 bowling bowling NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 pond pond NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nsubj 20 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 cockle cockle NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 pile pile NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 40 cockle cockle NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 42 shells shell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 43 topped top VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl _ _ 44 by by ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 45 « « PUNCT `` _ 50 punct _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 47 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 48 silvered silver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 amod _ _ 49 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 compound _ _ 50 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 51 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 52 nsubj _ _ 52 reflected reflect VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 50 acl:relcl _ _ 53 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 52 obj _ _ 54 all all ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 55 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=53:amod 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 59 very very ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 60 pleasing pleasing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obj _ _ 62 » » PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 63 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **does** | present | a skittle alley and skittles and a little pond with gold fish a shell border and a little pile of more cockle shells | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **top** | participle | | more cockle shells *not said here* | | | | by a large silvered glass ball | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **silver** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **reflect** *in a quote* | past | a large silvered glass ball | everything | | | | wrong *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | a large silvered glass ball *not said here* | a pleasing effect | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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. 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