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title: She asked Maddie for help — and Maddie taught her, every lunchtime f… — Maddie and Chloe's plaits · tree and pragmatics
description: She asked Maddie for help — and Maddie taught her, every lunchtime for a month. Who acts: Chloe, Maddie. 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 14

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She asked Maddie for help — and Maddie taught her, every lunchtime for a month.

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**Who acts:** Chloe, Maddie · **What happens:** ask, teach · **To what, where:** Maddie, lunchtime, Chloe

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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 (Chloe, Maddie), 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:14
# text = She asked Maddie for help — and Maddie taught her, every lunchtime for a month.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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* | past | Chloe |  | Maddie |  |  | for help | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | Maddie | every lunchtime for a month | Chloe |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |

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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:14`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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