--- title: A ball over the fence is a small test of manners: you do not climb i… — Greeting neighbours and new people · tree and pragmatics description: A ball over the fence is a small test of manners: you do not climb into the garden, which is trespassing, but knock, say sorry and ask politely. Who acts: ball, you, garden. 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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 (ball, you, garden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:123-neighbours-and-new-people.lesson:3 # text = A ball over the fence is a small test of manners: you do not climb into the garden, which is trespassing, but knock, say sorry and ask politely. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 123-neighbours-and-new-people.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 manners manners NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 9 nmod _ _ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 14 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 trespassing trespass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=16:cc 26 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=26:punct 28 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 29 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 32 politely politely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a ball over the fence | a small test | | | | of manners | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **climb** | present · do-support | you | | | the garden | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into garden=Destination | | 3 | **trespass** | present · progressive | the garden | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **knock** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | sorry | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sorry=Topic | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:123-neighbours-and-new-people.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×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: [Greeting neighbours and new people, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/2/) - next →: [Greeting neighbours and new people, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/123-neighbours-and-new-people/)