--- title: Maddie punched a boy's arm, sprained her fingers and could not hold… — What fights cost: bruises, noses and teeth · tree and pragmatics description: Maddie punched a boy's arm, sprained her fingers and could not hold a pen for the spelling test; Lily helped her kindly, without saying «I told you so». Who acts: Maddie, Lily. 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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, Lily), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:16 # text = Maddie punched a boy's arm, sprained her fingers and could not hold a pen for the spelling test; Lily helped her kindly, without saying «I told you so». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 punched punch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 sprained sprain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 pen pen NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:nmod 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 without without SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 28 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 34 » » PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **punch** | past | Maddie | a boy's arm | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 2 | **sprain** | past | Maddie *not said here* | Maddie's fingers | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient | | 3 | **not** **hold** | could | Maddie *not said here* | a pen | | | | for the spelling test | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pen=Theme | | 4 | **help** | past | Lily | | Maddie | | | kindly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Lily *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Lily | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | 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:374-what-fights-cost-bruises-noses-and-teeth.lesson:16`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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