Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 15

Maddie had her own version: two boys from different streets kept throwing her hat into a tree, until she told them, «If you like me, just say so.»

Who acts: Maddie, two boys, tricks · What happens: have, keep, throw, tell, like, say · To what, where: own version, hat, tree, tricks, Maddie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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, two boys, tricks), 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	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 version	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 version	amod
5	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 boys	punct
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 boys	nummod
8	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 version	appos
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 streets	case
10	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 streets	amod
11	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 boys	nmod
12	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boys	acl:relcl
13	throwing	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 kept	xcomp
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hat	nmod:poss
15	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throwing	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 tree	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tree	det
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throwing	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 told	punct
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	22 told	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 told	iobj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
25	«	«	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
26	If	if	SCONJ	_	28 like	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
28	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 say	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 like	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 say	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	32 say	advmod
32	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 told	ccomp
33	so	so	ADV	_	32 say	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
35	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: suggest
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Maddie	Maddie's own version			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient
2	keep	past	two boys from different streets not said here				tree rules
3	throw	gerund	two boys from different streets not said here	Maddie's hat		into a tree result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer hat=Theme into tree=Result
4	tell speech: assert	past	Maddie		tricks = trick		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
5	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	tricks = trick	Maddie			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:15.

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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