Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», sentence 6

Mum sat on the end of Maddie's bed and asked a hard question: «Do you want to fight like the boys, or do you want to be treated fairly?» Maddie thought for a long time.

Who acts: Mum, you, Maddie · What happens: sit, ask, want, fight, treat, think · To what, where: end, hard question · 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 (Mum, you, Maddie), 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	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 end	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 bed	case
7	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bed	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Maddie	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 question	det
13	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 question	amod
14	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	19 want	punct
17	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 want	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 want	nsubj
19	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fight	mark
21	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 want	xcomp
22	like	like	ADP	_	24 boys	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boys	det
24	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fight	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 want	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 want	cc
27	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 want	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 want	nsubj
29	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 want	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	32 treated	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 treated	aux:pass
32	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 want	xcomp
33	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	32 treated	advmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 treated	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	37 thought	punct
36	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 thought	nsubj
37	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 time	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 time	det
40	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 time	amod
41	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 thought	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 thought	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Mum		on the end of Maddie's bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	Mum not said here	a hard question			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent question=Recipient clause=Topic
3	want in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	fight not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			like the boys	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	want in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	treat not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here			fairly property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»
7	think speech: other	past	Maddie		time		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:6.

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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