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title: And Sam, braver now, tells Maddie she should not have pulled Chloe's… — Speaking up is bravery too · tree and pragmatics
description: And Sam, braver now, tells Maddie she should not have pulled Chloe's plaits. Who acts: Sam, Maddie. A sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Speaking up is bravery too, sentence 17

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And Sam, braver now, tells Maddie she should not have pulled Chloe's plaits.

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**Who acts:** Sam, Maddie · **What happens:** tell, not pull · **To what, where:** Maddie, plaits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Speaking up is bravery too» 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 (Sam, Maddie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:17
# text = And Sam, braver now, tells Maddie she should not have pulled Chloe's plaits.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	Sam	Sam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	braver	braver	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	ccomp	_	_
14	Chloe	Chloe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	plaits	plait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Sam |  | Maddie |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **pull** | should · perfect | Maddie | Chloe's plaits |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plait=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:368-speaking-up-is-bravery-too.lesson:17`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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