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title: A ball stuck on a roof is a job for an adult; you never climb onto a… — Music practice and ball games · tree and pragmatics
description: A ball stuck on a roof is a job for an adult; you never climb onto a roof. Who acts: ball, you. A sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Music practice and ball games, sentence 17

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A ball stuck on a roof is a job for an adult; you never climb onto a roof.

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**Who acts:** ball, you · **What happens:** stick, be, not climb · **To what, where:** ball, roof, job

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Music practice and ball games» 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 (ball, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:17
# text = A ball stuck on a roof is a job for an adult; you never climb onto a roof.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	climb	climb	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stick** | participle |  | a ball *not said here* |  | a roof |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on roof=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a ball | a job |  |  |  | for a adult | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **climb** | present | you |  |  | a roof |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto roof=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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:246-music-practice-and-ball-safety.lesson:17`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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