--- title: Parents sometimes say no to a sport because they are worried, and ta… — Maddie the tomboy · tree and pragmatics description: Parents sometimes say no to a sport because they are worried, and talking calmly can change their mind. Who acts: Parents, talking, sport. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Maddie the tomboy, sentence 20 Parents sometimes say no to a sport because they are worried, and talking calmly can change their mind. **Who acts:** Parents, talking, sport · **What happens:** say, be, talk, change, mind · **To what, where:** sport, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Parents, talking, sport), 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:20 # text = Parents sometimes say no to a sport because they are worried, and talking calmly can change their mind. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 3 advmod _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 3 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sport sport NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 worried worried ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 talking talk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ _ 15 calmly calmly ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:advmod 16 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 . . 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Parents | | a sport | | | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sport=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | Parents *= parent* | | | | | worried *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | | | | | | calmly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **change** | can | talking | sport's mind | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | | 5 | **mind** | | sport | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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:20`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Maddie the tomboy, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/19/) - next →: [Maddie the tomboy, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/)