--- title: Big Gaz from Year 8 grabs Sam's new ball at the rec (the recreation… — Rival teams and the older bully · tree and pragmatics description: Big Gaz from Year 8 grabs Sam's new ball at the rec (the recreation ground, a public park) and boots it into the river: «Go fetch, little man.» It floats towards the weir, a low wall across the river where water pours over and pulls hard. Who acts: Big Gaz, ball, water. 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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 (Big Gaz, ball, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.lesson:6 # text = Big Gaz from Year 8 grabs Sam's new ball at the rec (the recreation ground, a public park) and boots it into the river: «Go fetch, little man.» It floats towards the weir, a low wall across the river where water pours over and pulls hard. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Big Big PROPN NNP _ 2 flat _ _ 2 Gaz Gaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Year Year PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 flat _ _ 6 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:root 11 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 rec rec NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 recreation recreation NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:nmod 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 boots boot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 30 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct 31 Go Go PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 fetch fetch NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 37 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 38 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 floats float VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 40 towards towards ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 weir weir NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:conj 47 across across ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=39:obl 50 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 52 advmod _ _ 51 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 52 pours pour VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 acl:relcl _ _ 53 over over ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 pulls pull VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 56 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 55 advmod _ _ 57 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** | present | Big Gaz from Year | Sam's new ball | | the rec | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | | 2 | **boot** | present | Big Gaz from Year *not said here* | ball | | the river | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme into river=Destination | | 3 | **float** | present | ball | | | the weir | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards weir=Destination | | 4 | **pour over** | present | water | | | | | over *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **pull** | present | water *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=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:472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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: [Rival teams and the older bully, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/5/) - next →: [Rival teams and the older bully, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/472-rival-teams-and-the-older-bully/)