Maddie and Chloe's plaits, sentence 8

So Maddie wrote a proper sorry note, and it took her three goes: «I pulled your hair because I was embarrassed about my trousers.

Who acts: Maddie, it, mum · What happens: write, take, pull, be · To what, where: proper sorry note, three goes, Maddie, hair · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie and Chloe's plaits» 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, it, mum), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 wrote	advmod
2	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	nsubj
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 note	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 note	amod
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 note	amod
7	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrote	conj
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	iobj
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 goes	nummod
14	goes	go	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 pulled	punct
16	«	«	PUNCT	_	18 pulled	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 pulled	nsubj
18	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 goes	parataxis
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hair	nmod:poss
20	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pulled	obj
21	because	because	SCONJ	_	24 embarrassed	mark
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 embarrassed	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 embarrassed	cop
24	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 pulled	advcl
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 trousers	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 trousers	nmod:poss
27	trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 embarrassed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	write	past	Maddie	a proper sorry note			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme
2	take	past	it	three goes	Maddie		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Theme go=Destination
3	pull in a quote	past	Chloe's mum = mum	your hair			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
4	is in a quote	past	Chloe's mum = mum			about my trousers; embarrassed property	tree rules

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:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits.lesson:8.

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 ×2. 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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