--- title: Shouting rude words back at a cross neighbour makes things worse; wa… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: Shouting rude words back at a cross neighbour makes things worse; walk away and tell your parents. Who acts: Shouting. 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 ev --- [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/35/) [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/) / 35 # The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man next door, sentence 35 Shouting rude words back at a cross neighbour makes things worse; walk away and tell your parents. **Who acts:** Shouting · **What happens:** shout back, make, walk away, tell · **To what, where:** rude words, cross neighbour, things, parents · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Shouting), 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:35 # text = Shouting rude words back at a cross neighbour makes things worse; walk away and tell your parents. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Shouting shout VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 cross cross NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout back** *speech: express* | gerund | | rude words | | a cross neighbour | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 2 | **make** | present | Shouting | things | | | | bad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product | | 3 | **walk away** | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | your parents | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient | 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:35`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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