--- title: Sam's dad goes round, Sam says sorry about the tomatoes, and they ag… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics description: Sam's dad goes round, Sam says sorry about the tomatoes, and they agree: the kids play at the far end and knock to ask, and Mr Grimshaw hands balls back. Who acts: dad, Sam, tomatoes, kids. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dad, Sam, tomatoes, kids), 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:7 # text = Sam's dad goes round, Sam says sorry about the tomatoes, and they agree: the kids play at the far end and knock to ask, and Mr Grimshaw hands balls back. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 round round ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 10 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tomatoes tomato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 agree agree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 kids kid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 play play VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 knock knock VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advcl 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 Grimshaw Grimshaw PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ _ 33 hands hand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 34 balls ball NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 36 . . 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 | **go round** | present | Sam's dad | | | | | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: apologize* | present | Sam | | | | | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | tomatoes *= tomato* | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **play** | present | the kids | | | | at the far end | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **knock** | present | the kids *not said here* | | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | the kids *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **hand back** | present | Mr | balls | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=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:7`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. 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