--- title: To get a ball back from a neighbour's garden, knock and ask politely… — Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling · tree and pragmatics description: To get a ball back from a neighbour's garden, knock and ask politely rather than climbing the fence. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/) / 6 # Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling, sentence 6 To get a ball back from a neighbour's garden, knock and ask politely rather than climbing the fence. **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** get back, knock, ask, climb · **To what, where:** ball, garden, fence This is a sentence of the lesson «Neighbours, deliveries, heating and cooling» 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 (you), 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:6 # text = To get a ball back from a neighbour's garden, knock and ask politely rather than climbing the fence. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 knock knock VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 15 politely politely ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 rather rather ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 17 than than SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 climbing climb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **get back** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a ball | | a neighbour's garden | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ball=Theme from garden=Source | | 2 | **knock** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **climb** | gerund | you *not said here* | the fence | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location fence=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:6`. **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, R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/5/) - next →: [Neighbours, deliveries, heating and co…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/117-neighbours-deliveries-and-heating/)