Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», sentence 4
She wants to fight like a boy, so she gets hit like a boy.» Some of the class agreed: «Maddie deserved it, she's always shoving.» When the school called Connor's dad in, he said, «Well, she was asking for it.» That evening Maddie's big brother Ryan wanted to «sort Connor out» after school.
Who acts: Connor, Some, Maddie, school, big brother · What happens: want, fight, get, hit, agree, deserve · To what, where: class, dad, Connor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» 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 (Connor, Some, Maddie, school), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 fight | mark |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 boy | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fight | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 gets | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gets | nsubj |
| 11 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | parataxis |
| 12 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gets | xcomp |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 boy | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hit | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 gets | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 22 agreed | punct |
| 18 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 agreed | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 class | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 class | det |
| 21 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Some | nmod |
| 22 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gets | advcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 deserved | punct |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 26 deserved | punct |
| 25 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 deserved | nsubj |
| 26 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 deserved | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 shoving | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shoving | nsubj |
| 30 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 shoving | aux |
| 31 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 32 shoving | advmod |
| 32 | shoving | shove | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 deserved | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 shoving | punct |
| 34 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 32 shoving | punct |
| 35 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 called | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 school | det |
| 37 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 called | nsubj |
| 38 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 said | advcl |
| 39 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 dad | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Connor | case |
| 41 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 called | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 called | compound:prt |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 said | punct |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 said | nsubj |
| 45 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | parataxis |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 asking | punct |
| 47 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 52 asking | punct |
| 48 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 52 asking | discourse |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Well | punct |
| 50 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 asking | nsubj |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 asking | aux |
| 52 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 said | ccomp |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 it | case |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 asking | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| 56 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| 57 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 58 evening | det |
| 58 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 wanted | obl:unmarked |
| 59 | Maddie | Maddie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 brother | nmod:poss |
| 60 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 59 Maddie | case |
| 61 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 brother | amod |
| 62 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 wanted | nsubj |
| 63 | Ryan | Ryan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 brother | appos |
| 64 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wants | ccomp |
| 65 | to | to | PART | _ | 67 sort | mark |
| 66 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 67 sort | punct |
| 67 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 64 wanted | xcomp |
| 68 | Connor | Connor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 67 sort | obj |
| 69 | out | out | ADP | _ | 67 sort | compound:prt |
| 70 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 67 sort | punct |
| 71 | after | after | ADP | _ | 72 school | case |
| 72 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 wanted | obl |
| 73 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Connor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | Connor not said here | like a boy | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get | present | Connor | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hit | participle | Connor not said here | like a boy | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | agree speech: agree in a quote | past | Some | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | deserve | past | Maddie | class | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | shove | present · progressive | Connor | always property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | call in speech: assert in a quote | past | the school | Connor's dad | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | school | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | ask speech: ask | past · progressive | Connor | for class | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 11 | want in a quote | past | Maddie's big brother | after school; evening | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 12 | sort out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Maddie's big brother not said here | Connor | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent connor=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, 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:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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