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title: A nickname like «Mad Maddie» can be meant as a joke but still sting. — Maddie the tomboy · tree and pragmatics
description: A nickname like «Mad Maddie» can be meant as a joke but still sting. 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.
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# Maddie the tomboy, sentence 22

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A nickname like «Mad Maddie» can be meant as a joke but still sting.

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**What happens:** mean, sting · **To what, where:** nickname

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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: 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:22
# text = A nickname like «Mad Maddie» can be meant as a joke but still sting.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nickname	nickname	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Mad	Mad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sting	sting	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **mean** | can · passive |  | a nickname like Mad |  |  |  | as a joke | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Topic as joke=Attribute |
| 2 | **sting** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:378-maddie-the-tomboy.lesson:22`.

**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): R6-punct-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/).

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