What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth, sentence 16

Maddie punched a boy's arm, sprained her fingers and could not hold a pen for the spelling test; Lily helped her kindly, without saying «I told you so».

Who acts: Maddie, Lily · What happens: punch, sprain, not hold, help, say, tell · To what, where: arm, fingers, pen, Maddie, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth» 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 (Maddie, Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 punched	nsubj
2	punched	punch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 arm	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 punched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sprained	punct
8	sprained	sprain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 punched	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fingers	nmod:poss
10	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sprained	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 hold	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hold	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 hold	advmod
14	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 punched	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 pen	det
16	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 test	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 test	det
19	spelling	spelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 test	compound
20	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hold	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 helped	punct
22	Lily	Lily	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 helped	nsubj
23	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 punched	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 helped	obj
25	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	23 helped	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 saying	punct
27	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 saying	mark
28	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 helped	advcl
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 told	nsubj
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 saying	ccomp
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 told	obj
33	so	so	ADV	_	31 told	advmod
34	»	»	PUNCT	_	31 told	punct
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 punched	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	punch	past	Maddie	a boy's arm			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	sprain	past	Maddie not said here	Maddie's fingers			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient
3	not hold	could	Maddie not said here	a pen		for the spelling test	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme
4	help	past	Lily		Maddie	kindly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Lily not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	Lily		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=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, 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:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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