--- title: Mr Hal, who sits on his porch at number 9, says «kids these days» at… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: Mr Hal, who sits on his porch at number 9, says «kids these days» at everyone, until Mia draws him a picture of his old dog — now he waves whenever she passes. 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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 (Mr Hal, Mia, 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:17 # text = Mr Hal, who sits on his porch at number 9, says «kids these days» at everyone, until Mia draws him a picture of his old dog — now he waves whenever she passes. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Hal Hal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 porch porch NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 9 9 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 flat _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct 15 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 compound _ _ 16 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 » » PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 13 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 Mia Mia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 draws draw VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:obj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 32 — - PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 waves wave VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj 36 whenever whenever SCONJ WRB _ 38 mark _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | present | Mr Hal | | | Hal's porch | | at number | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on porch=Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mr Hal | | | everyone | day | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **draw** | present | Mia | a picture of Hal's old dog | Hal | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary picture=Result | | 4 | **wave** | present | Mia | | | | now | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **pass** | present | Mrs | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «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:473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door.lesson:17`. **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 ×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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/16/) - next →: [The ball over the fence and the grumpy…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/18/) - ↑ 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/)