--- title: Mum sat on the end of Maddie's bed and asked a hard question: «Do yo… — Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» · tree and pragmatics description: Mum sat on the end of Maddie's bed and asked a hard question: «Do you want to fight like the boys, or do you want to be treated fairly?» Maddie thought for a long time. Who acts: Mum, you, Maddie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mum, you, Maddie), 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:6 # text = Mum sat on the end of Maddie's bed and asked a hard question: «Do you want to fight like the boys, or do you want to be treated fairly?» Maddie thought 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 « « PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:conj 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 31 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 xcomp _ _ 33 fairly fairly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 ? ? PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 35 » » PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ 36 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | Mum | | | | on the end of Maddie's bed | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Mum *not said here* | a hard question | | | | | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent question=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 4 | **fight** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | like the boys | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **want** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **treat** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | you *not said here* | | | | | fairly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient» | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Maddie | | | | time | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:6`. **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, 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's nose and Connor's «equality», 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/4/) - next →: [Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/)