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title: Maddie had fallen in a puddle at break, and her trousers were brown… — Maddie and Chloe's plaits · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie had fallen in a puddle at break, and her trousers were brown to the knees. Who acts: Maddie, trousers. A sentence of the lesson «Maddie and Chloe's plaits» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Maddie and Chloe's plaits, sentence 0

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Maddie had fallen in a puddle at break, and her trousers were brown to the knees.

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**Who acts:** Maddie, trousers · **What happens:** fall, be · **To what, where:** puddle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie and Chloe's plaits» 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 (Maddie, trousers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits.lesson:0
# text = Maddie had fallen in a puddle at break, and her trousers were brown to the knees.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits.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): no change
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	puddle	puddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	break	break	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **fall** | past · perfect | Maddie |  |  | a puddle |  | at break | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in puddle=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | Maddie's trousers |  |  |  |  | to the knees; brown *property* | tree rules |

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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:380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits.lesson:0`.

**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): no change. **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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