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title: That's more than most.» Lily's grandad says, «Some folk have had har… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics
description: That's more than most.» Lily's grandad says, «Some folk have had hard lives, love. Who acts: That, grandad, folk. 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
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# The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 25

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That's more than most.» Lily's grandad says, «Some folk have had hard lives, love.

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**Who acts:** That, grandad, folk · **What happens:** be, say, have · **To what, where:** hard lives · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (That, grandad, 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:25
# text = That's more than most.» Lily's grandad says, «Some folk have had hard lives, love.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obl	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
8	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	grandad	grandad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	vocative	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | than most; more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Lily's grandad |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present · perfect | some folk | hard lives |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |

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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.

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**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:25`.

**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, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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