--- title: Climbing fences can break things in the garden and you can get hurt. — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: Climbing fences can break things in the garden and you can get hurt. Who acts: Climbing fences. 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 clause. --- [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/29/) [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/) / 29 # The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 29 Climbing fences can break things in the garden and you can get hurt. **Who acts:** Climbing fences · **What happens:** break, hurt · **To what, where:** things, garden, you 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 (Climbing fences), 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:29 # text = Climbing fences can break things in the garden and you can get hurt. # 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): no change 1 Climbing climbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 fences fence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break** | can | Climbing fences | things | | the garden | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Patient | | 2 | **hurt** | can · passive | | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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:29`. **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): no change. **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…, 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/28/) - next →: [The ball over the fence and the grumpy…, 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/473-the-ball-over-the-fence-and-the-grumpy-old-man-next-door/30/) - ↑ 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/)