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title: After the nose punch, Maddie and Connor had to sit with Mr Pryce and… — What fights cost at school · tree and pragmatics
description: After the nose punch, Maddie and Connor had to sit with Mr Pryce and say what THEY did, not what the other did. Who acts: Maddie, sidelines, other. 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 pragmatics of eve
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# What fights cost at school, sentence 9

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After the nose punch, Maddie and Connor had to sit with Mr Pryce and say what THEY did, not what the other did.

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**Who acts:** Maddie, sidelines, other · **What happens:** have, sit, say, do · **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, sidelines, other), 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:9
# text = After the nose punch, Maddie and Connor had to sit with Mr Pryce and say what THEY did, not what the other did.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	punch	punch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	Pryce	Pryce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	obj	_	_
18	THEY	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:nsubj
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **have** | past | Maddie and Connor |  |  |  | after the nose punch |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive | Maddie and Connor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Mr | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | Maddie and Connor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | past | sidelines *= sideline* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** | past | the other |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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**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:9`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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