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title: Her mum stood at the bottom shouting, «Fish fingers are going cold!»… — Maddie the tomboy · tree and pragmatics
description: Her mum stood at the bottom shouting, «Fish fingers are going cold!» Maddie shouted back, «I can see the whole town!» She came down in the end, with conkers in every pocket and a rip in her trousers. Who acts: mum, Fish fingers, Maddie. A sentence of the lesson «Maddie the tomboy» of the everyday co
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# Maddie the tomboy, sentence 1

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Her mum stood at the bottom shouting, «Fish fingers are going cold!» Maddie shouted back, «I can see the whole town!» She came down in the end, with conkers in every pocket and a rip in her trousers.

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**Who acts:** mum, Fish fingers, Maddie · **What happens:** stand, shout, go, shout back, see, come down · **To what, where:** bottom, whole town, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie the tomboy» 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 (mum, Fish fingers, Maddie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:378-maddie-the-tomboy.lesson:1
# text = Her mum stood at the bottom shouting, «Fish fingers are going cold!» Maddie shouted back, «I can see the whole town!» She came down in the end, with conkers in every pocket and a rip in her trousers.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 378-maddie-the-tomboy.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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
16	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:parataxis
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
29	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
30	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
32	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	conkers	conker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	rip	rip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:conj
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	_
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **stand** | past | Maddie's mum |  |  | the bottom |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | Maddie's mum *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Fish fingers |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shout back** *speech: express* | past | Maddie |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | can | Maddie | the whole town |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer town=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come down** | past | Maddie |  |  |  | in the end | with conkers in every pocket and a rip in Maddie's trousers; down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in end=Location |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.

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