Girls who fight and double standards, sentence 6

Kieran told Maddie she couldn't come to a fight because she was a girl — and the very next day begged her to come because she was «the best fighter».

Who acts: Kieran, next day, girl · What happens: tell, not come, be, beg, come · To what, where: Maddie, fight, girl, best fighter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Girls who fight and double standards» 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 (Kieran, next day, girl), 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	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 come	advmod
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 fight	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fight	det
10	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 girl	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 girl	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 girl	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 girl	det
15	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	advcl
16	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 begged	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 begged	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 day	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 next	advmod
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 day	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begged	nsubj
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 begged	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	xcomp
26	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 fighter	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fighter	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 fighter	cop
29	«	«	PUNCT	_	32 fighter	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fighter	det
31	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 fighter	amod
32	fighter	fighter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begged	advcl
33	»	»	PUNCT	_	32 fighter	punct
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Kieran		Maddie		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not come	could	Kieran			a fight	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fight=Initial_Location
3	is a	past	Kieran	a girl			tree rules
4	beg speech: request	past	the next day		girl		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	the next day not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a in a quote	past	girl	the best fighter			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:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.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): 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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