--- title: And when a boy grabbed Maddie's hood and dragged her backwards, she… — Self-defence or just stupid? · tree and pragmatics description: And when a boy grabbed Maddie's hood and dragged her backwards, she pushed him off to get free and stopped there. Who acts: boy, Maddie. 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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 (boy, Maddie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:18 # text = And when a boy grabbed Maddie's hood and dragged her backwards, she pushed him off to get free and stopped there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.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 And and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 advmod _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 grabbed grab VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 6 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 hood hood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 dragged drag VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 backwards backwards ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 20 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grab** | past | a boy | Maddie's hood | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hood=Theme | | 2 | **drag** | past | a boy *not said here* | Maddie | | | | backwards *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 3 | **push off** | past | Maddie | boy | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **get** | to-infinitive | Maddie *not said here* | | | | | free *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **stop** | past | Maddie *not said here* | | | there | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:377-self-defence-or-just-stupid.lesson:18`. **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/). - ← previous: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/17/) - next →: [Self-defence or just stupid?, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/377-self-defence-or-just-stupid/)