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title: Maddie, the best striker, got a detention for fighting and missed th… — What fights cost at school · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie, the best striker, got a detention for fighting and missed the girls' football tournament; she watched from the sidelines as the team lost 2–1. Who acts: Maddie, team. A sentence of the lesson «What fights cost at school» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# What fights cost at school, sentence 8

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Maddie, the best striker, got a detention for fighting and missed the girls' football tournament; she watched from the sidelines as the team lost 2–1.

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**Who acts:** Maddie, team · **What happens:** get, miss, watch, lose · **To what, where:** detention, football tournament, sidelines, 2

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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, team), 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:8
# text = Maddie, the best striker, got a detention for fighting and missed the girls' football tournament; she watched from the sidelines as the team lost 2–1.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	striker	striker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	detention	detention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	missed	miss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	'	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tournament	tournament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sidelines	sideline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
29	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obj	_	_
30	–	–	SYM	SYM	ExtPos=ADP	31	punct	_	_
31	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **get** | past | Maddie | a detention |  |  |  | for fighting | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent detention=Theme for fighting=Source |
| 2 | **miss** | past | Maddie *not said here* | the girls's football tournament |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tournament=Stimulus |
| 3 | **watch** | past | Maddie |  |  | the sidelines |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lose** | past | the team | 2 |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 2=Eventuality |

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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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**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): 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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