--- title: That fierceness has a good side — she is brave, loyal and never bori… — Maddie the tomboy · tree and pragmatics description: That fierceness has a good side — she is brave, loyal and never boring — and a hard side: it gets her into fights. Who acts: fierceness, gran. A sentence of the lesson «Maddie the tomboy» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Maddie the tomboy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/) / 10 # Maddie the tomboy, sentence 10 That fierceness has a good side — she is brave, loyal and never boring — and a hard side: it gets her into fights. **Who acts:** fierceness, gran · **What happens:** have, be, not be, get · **To what, where:** good side, fierceness, fights 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 (fierceness, gran), 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:10 # text = That fierceness has a good side — she is brave, loyal and never boring — and a hard side: it gets her into fights. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 fierceness fierceness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 — - PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 loyal loyal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 boring boring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj 16 — - PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 21 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 fights fight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | that fierceness | a good side and a hard side | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | fierceness | | | | | brave *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **be** | | fierceness *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **be** | | fierceness *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | present | gran | fierceness | | fights | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer her=Stimulus | 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:378-maddie-the-tomboy.lesson:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Maddie the tomboy, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/9/) - next →: [Maddie the tomboy, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/)