--- title: Maddie's ball gets chewed to shreds by the neighbour's Staffie (a St… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: Maddie's ball gets chewed to shreds by the neighbour's Staffie (a Staffordshire bull terrier, a strong, stocky dog); «Tough luck, love.» Her mum buys a new one: «Some folk are like that, pet. Who acts: Staffie, mum, folk. 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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 (Staffie, mum, folk), 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:18 # text = Maddie's ball gets chewed to shreds by the neighbour's Staffie (a Staffordshire bull terrier, a strong, stocky dog); «Tough luck, love.» Her mum buys a new one: «Some folk are like that, pet. # 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 1 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nsubj 4 gets get AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 chewed chew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 shreds shred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 's 's PART POS _ 10 case _ _ 12 Staffie Staffie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 Staffordshire Staffordshire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 terrier terrier NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 20 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 stocky stocky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 parataxis _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 « « PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 27 Tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 32 » » PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 33 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 buys buy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 : : PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 40 « « PUNCT `` _ 42 punct _ _ 41 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 42 det _ _ 42 folk folk NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 43 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 parataxis _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 pet pet NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 vocative _ _ 48 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **chew** | present · passive | the neighbour's Staffie | Maddie's ball | | | | to shreds | tree rules | | 2 | **buy** | present | dog's mum | a new one | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | some folk | | | | | like that; pet *vocative* | tree rules | 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:18`. **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. **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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