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title: One icy morning Sam sees Mr Grimshaw wobbling up his slippery path w… — The ball over the fence and the grumpy old man n… · tree and pragmatics
description: One icy morning Sam sees Mr Grimshaw wobbling up his slippery path with four bags of shopping. Who acts: Sam, Mr. 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 8

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One icy morning Sam sees Mr Grimshaw wobbling up his slippery path with four bags of shopping.

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**Who acts:** Sam, Mr · **What happens:** see, wobble up · **To what, where:** slippery path · **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 (Sam, Mr), 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:8
# text = One icy morning Sam sees Mr Grimshaw wobbling up his slippery path with four bags of shopping.
# 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	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Grimshaw	Grimshaw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	wobbling	wobble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	ccomp	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	slippery	slippery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	bags	bag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	shopping	shopping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Sam |  |  |  | morning |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wobble up** | gerund | Mr | Mr's slippery path |  |  |  | with four bags of shopping | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=Theme |

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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:8`.

**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.

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

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