--- title: Maddie twists her ankle in a scrap behind the garages and tells no o… — Getting help is not telling tales · tree and pragmatics description: Maddie twists her ankle in a scrap behind the garages and tells no one, so it swells to twice its size; the doctor says she should have had ice and a check-up the same day. Who acts: Maddie, ankle, doctor. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maddie, ankle, doctor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:12 # text = Maddie twists her ankle in a scrap behind the garages and tells no one, so it swells to twice its size; the doctor says she should have had ice and a check-up the same day. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.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 ×3 1 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 twists twist VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 ankle ankle NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 scrap scrap NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 behind behind ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 garages garage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 swells swell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 20 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 22 advmod _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 size size NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:xcomp 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux _ _ 30 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 31 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 check check NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 36 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twist** | present | Maddie | Maddie's ankle | | a scrap behind the garages | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ankle=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | Maddie *not said here* | no one | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient | | 3 | **swell** | present | ankle | | | | | to ankle's size | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the doctor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **have** | should · perfect | doctor | ice and a check | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient | 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](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:369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales.lesson:12`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [Getting help is not telling tales, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/10/) - next →: [Getting help is not telling tales, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/369-getting-help-is-not-telling-tales/)