--- title: By nine next morning half the street is there with brooms, a ladder… — Neighbours who don't speak and the friendly shop… · tree and pragmatics description: By nine next morning half the street is there with brooms, a ladder and tea; Big Steve boards the window, Mr Grimshaw sweeps glass, Sam hands out biscuits. Who acts: street, Big Steve, Mr, Sam. 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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 (street, Big Steve, Mr, Sam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:10 # text = By nine next morning half the street is there with brooms, a ladder and tea; Big Steve boards the window, Mr Grimshaw sweeps glass, Sam hands out biscuits. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 By by ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 3 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 7 det:predet _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 brooms broom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:nmod 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 Big Big PROPN NNP _ 19 flat _ _ 19 Steve Steve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 boards board VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 24 Mr Mr PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 Grimshaw Grimshaw PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 flat _ _ 26 sweeps sweep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 hands hand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 out out ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 biscuits biscuit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | half street | | | there | morning | with brooms and a ladder and tea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **board** | present | Big Steve | the window | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme window=Location | | 3 | **sweep** | present | Mr | glass | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glass=Trajectory | | 4 | **hand out** | present | Sam | biscuits | | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent biscuit=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:483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper.lesson:10`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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