---
title: The bin men came and went; for two weeks the full bin stank by the b… — Homework, practice and the team counting on you · tree and pragmatics
description: The bin men came and went; for two weeks the full bin stank by the back door and the whole family smelled it. Who acts: bin men, full bin, whole family. A sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/1/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Homework, practice and the team counti…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/) / 1

# Homework, practice and the team counting on you, sentence 1

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The bin men came and went; for two weeks the full bin stank by the back door and the whole family smelled it.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** bin men, full bin, whole family · **What happens:** come, go, stink, smell · **To what, where:** door

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Homework, practice and the team counting on you» 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 (bin men, full bin, whole family), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:1
# text = The bin men came and went; for two weeks the full bin stank by the back door and the whole family smelled it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stank	stink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	back	back	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	smelled	smell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the bin men |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the bin men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stink** | past | the full bin |  |  |  | week | by the back door | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **smell** | past | the whole family | door |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play.lesson:1`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Homework, practice and the team counti…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/0/)
- next →: [Homework, practice and the team counti…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/2/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/351-bins-group-projects-the-dog-and-lines-for-the-play/)

