Maddie the tomboy, sentence 4
For her cousin's wedding, Maddie flatly refused to wear a dress.
Who acts: Maddie, cousin · What happens: refuse, not wear, wed · To what, where: dress
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie the tomboy» 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, cousin), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 wedding | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 cousin | case |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 refused | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wedding | punct |
| 7 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 refused | nsubj |
| 8 | flatly | flatly | ADV | _ | 9 refused | advmod |
| 9 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 wear | mark |
| 11 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 refused | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dress | det |
| 13 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wear | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | Maddie | for vicar's cousin's wedding; flatly property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not wear | to-infinitive | Maddie not said here | a dress | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wed | vicar's cousin | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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:378-maddie-the-tomboy.lesson:4.
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): no change. 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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