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title: Asking «does it hurt?» is a small kindness that people remember for… — Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» · tree and pragmatics
description: Asking «does it hurt?» is a small kindness that people remember for a long time. Who acts: task, Asking, people. A sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», sentence 25

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Asking «does it hurt?» is a small kindness that people remember for a long time.

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**Who acts:** task, Asking, people · **What happens:** ask, hurt, be, remember · **To what, where:** small kindness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» 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 (task, Asking, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:25
# text = Asking «does it hurt?» is a small kindness that people remember for a long time.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	csubj	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	remember	remember	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hurt** *in a quote* | present · do-support | task |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | Asking | a small kindness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remember** | present | people | a small kindness |  |  | time |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:25`.

**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, R8-pos-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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