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title: In the end Maddie said sorry for shoving, Connor said sorry for punc… — What fights cost at school · tree and pragmatics
description: In the end Maddie said sorry for shoving, Connor said sorry for punching, and he admitted «hit like a boy» was a stupid thing to say. Who acts: Maddie, Connor, «. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pr
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# What fights cost at school, sentence 11

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In the end Maddie said sorry for shoving, Connor said sorry for punching, and he admitted «hit like a boy» was a stupid thing to say.

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**Who acts:** Maddie, Connor, « · **What happens:** say, shove, punch, admit, hit, be · **To what, where:** end, stupid thing · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What fights cost at school» 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, Connor, «), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:375-what-fights-cost-at-school.lesson:11
# text = In the end Maddie said sorry for shoving, Connor said sorry for punching, and he admitted «hit like a boy» was a stupid thing to say.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 375-what-fights-cost-at-school.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 ×3
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	shoving	shove	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct
10	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	punching	punch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	admitted	admit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	«	«	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	stupid	stupid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: apologize* | past | Maddie |  |  |  | in the end | sorry *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in end=Manner |
| 2 | **shove** | gerund | Maddie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Connor |  |  |  |  | sorry *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **punch** | gerund | Connor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **admit** *speech: other* | past | Connor |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **hit** *in a quote* | infinitive | « |  |  |  |  | like a boy | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | a stupid thing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Connor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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:375-what-fights-cost-at-school.lesson:11`.

**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 ×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/).

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