Maddie the tomboy Lesson 378 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Maddie climbed the tallest horse chestnut in the park and refused to come down for tea. 1 Her mum stood at the bottom shouting, «Fish fingers are going cold!» Maddie shouted back, «I can see the whole town!» She came down in the end, with conkers in every pocket and a rip in her trousers. 2 Her gran laughed: «I was just as wild. 3 I climbed the church wall in my Sunday best and the vicar nearly fainted.» 4 For her cousin's wedding, Maddie flatly refused to wear a dress. 5 After a long row, Mum found her a small navy suit, and Maddie looked so sharp that three aunties asked where it was from. 6 At school a girl called Sophie said Maddie «isn't a proper girl». 7 Maddie said, «I'm a girl. 9 Some kids call her «Mad Maddie» because she is rough and fierce. 10 That fierceness has a good side — she is brave, loyal and never boring — and a hard side: it gets her into fights. 12 They just are: Lily calms Maddie down, and Maddie makes Lily laugh. 13 Maddie wanted to join the boxing club, and her dad said no, worried she'd get hurt. 14 Then she asked why girls never got a game in the big street football at the rec. 15 There is no rule against it; it's just habit, and habits can be changed by asking. 17 There is no single right way to be a girl or a boy. 18 Girls and women play football, rugby and boxing, and many play for their countries. 19 A sport with rules, a coach and safety gear is different from a fight in the street. 20 Parents sometimes say no to a sport because they are worried, and talking calmly can change their mind. 21 Friends can be very different from each other and still be close. 22 A nickname like «Mad Maddie» can be meant as a joke but still sting. 23 Many grandparents and parents were wild as children too. ← previous Self-defence or just stupid?next → Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»↑ back to Everyday This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/