--- title: When your ball goes into someone's garden, the right thing is to kno… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: When your ball goes into someone's garden, the right thing is to knock and ask, not to climb in. Who acts: ball. 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 cl --- [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/28/) [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/) / 28 # The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 28 When your ball goes into someone's garden, the right thing is to knock and ask, not to climb in. **Who acts:** ball · **What happens:** go, be, knock, ask, not climb · **To what, where:** garden, right thing 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 (ball), 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:28 # text = When your ball goes into someone's garden, the right thing is to knock and ask, not to climb in. # 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 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 knock knock VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:ccomp 22 in in ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | your ball | | | someone's garden | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **is a** | present | | the right thing | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **knock** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **climb** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «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:28`. **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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