--- title: Jake climbs Mr Grimshaw's fence and smashes a pot; he pays for it fr… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: Jake climbs Mr Grimshaw's fence and smashes a pot; he pays for it from three weeks' pocket money. Who acts: Jake. 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 c --- [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/21/) [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/) / 21 # The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 21 Jake climbs Mr Grimshaw's fence and smashes a pot; he pays for it from three weeks' pocket money. **Who acts:** Jake · **What happens:** climb, smash, pay · **To what, where:** fence, pot, pocket money 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 (Jake), 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:21 # text = Jake climbs Mr Grimshaw's fence and smashes a pot; he pays for it from three weeks' pocket money. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Jake Jake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 Grimshaw Grimshaw PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 6 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 smashes smash VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 pays pay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod:unmarked _ _ 19 ' 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | present | Jake | Mr's fence | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location fence=Theme | | 2 | **smash** | present | Jake *not said here* | a pot | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme | | 3 | **pay** | present | Jake | pocket money 's three weeks | | | | for pot | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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:21`. **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): R6-punct-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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