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title: A sweet can't undo a sore head. — Maddie and Chloe's plaits · tree and pragmatics
description: A sweet can't undo a sore head. Who acts: sweet. 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 7

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A sweet can't undo a sore head.

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**Who acts:** sweet · **What happens:** not undo · **To what, where:** sore head

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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 (sweet), 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:7
# text = A sweet can't undo a sore head.
# 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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	undo	undo	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **undo** | can | a sweet | a sore head |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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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