--- title: Mrs Platt at number 22 shuts her curtains when kids say hello and ri… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: Mrs Platt at number 22 shuts her curtains when kids say hello and rings the council about hopscotch, so the kids play in the park instead. Who acts: Mrs, kids. 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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 (Mrs, kids), 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:15 # text = Mrs Platt at number 22 shuts her curtains when kids say hello and rings the council about hopscotch, so the kids play in the park instead. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mrs Mrs PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 Platt Platt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 22 22 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 6 shuts shut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 12 hello hello NOUN NN _ 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=11:cc 14 rings ring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 council council NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 hopscotch hopscotch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=6:punct 20 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 instead instead ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shut** | present | Mrs at number | Mrs's curtains | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | kids | hello | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic | | 3 | **ring** | present | kids *not said here* | the council | | | | about hopscotch | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location council=Theme | | 4 | **play** | present | the kids | | | the park | | instead *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:15`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R2-punct-next ×1, 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. 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