--- title: Some kids shout «old witch» at her through the letterbox; she tells… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: Some kids shout «old witch» at her through the letterbox; she tells their parents, and they're grounded for a week. Who acts: kids, Mrs. 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 th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/16/) [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/) / [The ball over the fence and the grumpy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/) / 16 # The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 16 Some kids shout «old witch» at her through the letterbox; she tells their parents, and they're grounded for a week. **Who acts:** kids, Mrs · **What happens:** shout, tell, ground · **To what, where:** old witch, letterbox, parents, kids · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (kids, Mrs), 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:16 # text = Some kids shout «old witch» at her through the letterbox; she tells their parents, and they're grounded for a week. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shout shout VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 « « PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obl 7 » » PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 letterbox letterbox NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 're be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 grounded ground VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . 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 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | some kids | old witch | | the letterbox | | Mrs *obl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Mrs | | kids's parents | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | | 3 | **ground** | present · passive | | kids *= kid* | | | week | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination | 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:16`. **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 ×2. **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: [The ball over the fence and the grumpy…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/15/) - next →: [The ball over the fence and the grumpy…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/)