--- title: For example, a girl in London kicks her ball over the fence; she kno… — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling · tree and pragmatics description: For example, a girl in London kicks her ball over the fence; she knocks on the door with her dad and asks politely, and the neighbour is happy to hand it back. Who acts: girl, neighbour. 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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 (girl, neighbour), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:3 # text = For example, a girl in London kicks her ball over the fence; she knocks on the door with her dad and asks politely, and the neighbour is happy to hand it back. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.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 ×2 1 For for ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 kicks kick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 knocks knock VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 asks ask VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 politely politely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:parataxis 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 hand hand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **kick** | present | a girl in London | girl's ball | | the fence | | for example | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ball=Patient over fence=Location | | 2 | **knock** | present | girl | | | the door | | with girl's dad | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Location | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | girl *not said here* | | | | | politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | the neighbour | | | | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **hand back** | to-infinitive | the neighbour *not said here* | neighbour | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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](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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating.lesson:3`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/2/) - next →: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/)