--- title: Maddie and Chloe's plaits — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Maddie and Chloe's plaits», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Maddie had fallen in a puddle at break, and her trousers were brown to the knees. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/) [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 and Chloe's plaits # Maddie and Chloe's plaits Lesson 380 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 23 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/0/) — Maddie had fallen in a puddle at break, and her trousers were brown to the knees. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/1/) — In the line Chloe giggled, «Ew, mud monster.» Maddie's face went hot, and before she thought, she grabbed both of Chloe's long plaits and yanked. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/2/) — Chloe yelped and burst into tears. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/3/) — Maddie felt big for about two seconds and then very, very small. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/4/) — After that Chloe walked the long way round the playground, past the bins, just so she wouldn't pass Maddie. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/5/) — Maddie tried to fix it with a strawberry sweet, but Chloe shook her head and wouldn't take it. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/6/) — Next day Chloe's mum came in to complain that her daughter's head had been sore for days. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/7/) — A sweet can't undo a sore head. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/8/) — So Maddie wrote a proper sorry note, and it took her three goes: «I pulled your hair because I was embarrassed about my trousers. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/9/) — That wasn't your fault. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/10/) — I'm sorry I hurt you.» Chloe read it and nodded. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/11/) — She told Lily later, «I'm still a bit scared of her. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/12/) — But she's also kind of cool.» Both things were true. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/13/) — Two years later Chloe wanted to get into the school football team and was hopeless at passing. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/14/) — She asked Maddie for help — and Maddie taught her, every lunchtime for a month. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/15/) — And when Maddie saw her little cousin Evie yanking another girl's hair at a birthday party, she marched over and said, «Stop that. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/16/) — Trust me, she'll remember it for ages.» - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/17/) — Pulling hair really hurts, and the scalp can stay sore for days. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/20/) — Someone who was hurt often avoids the person who hurt them for a long time. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/22/) — A good apology says what you did, why it was wrong, and that you are sorry, without excuses. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/23/) — A person can be scared of someone and admire them at the same time. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/24/) — Trust can come back slowly, sometimes over years. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/25/) — Someone who has done a wrong thing and learned from it is often the best person to stop others doing it. - ← previous: [Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/) - next →: [Girls who fight and double standards](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)