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title: By August Sam has grown a huge red tomato from Mr Grimshaw's seeds. — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics
description: By August Sam has grown a huge red tomato from Mr Grimshaw's seeds. Who acts: Sam. A sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 13

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By August Sam has grown a huge red tomato from Mr Grimshaw's seeds.

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**Who acts:** Sam · **What happens:** grow · **To what, where:** huge red tomato, seeds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door» 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 (Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:13
# text = By August Sam has grown a huge red tomato from Mr Grimshaw's seeds.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.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	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	August	August	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tomato	tomato	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
14	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=narrate

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present · perfect | Sam | a huge red tomato |  | Mr's seeds | august |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent tomato=Product from seed=Material |

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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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:13`.

**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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