--- title: Ball games belong in a park, a yard or a playground, not on the pave… — Walking on the pavement and crossing roads · tree and pragmatics description: Ball games belong in a park, a yard or a playground, not on the pavement, because a ball can roll into the road and a child may chase it without looking. Who acts: Ball games, ball, child. 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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 games, ball, child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.lesson:6 # text = Ball games belong in a park, a yard or a playground, not on the pavement, because a ball can roll into the road and a child may chase it without looking. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 266-walking-and-crossing-roads.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 belong belong VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 playground playground NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 pavement pavement NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 chase chase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 without without SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **belong** | present | Ball games | | | a park and a yard or a playground and the pavement | | | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **roll** | can | a ball | | | the road | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination | | 3 | **chase** | may | a child | ball | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **look** | gerund | a child *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | 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:266-walking-and-crossing-roads.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 ×1, R7-rel-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: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/5/) - next →: [Walking on the pavement and crossing r…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/266-walking-and-crossing-roads/)