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title: So Maddie wrote a proper sorry note, and it took her three goes: «I… — Maddie and Chloe's plaits · tree and pragmatics
description: So Maddie wrote a proper sorry note, and it took her three goes: «I pulled your hair because I was embarrassed about my trousers. Who acts: Maddie, it, mum. 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 pragmatic
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# Maddie and Chloe's plaits, sentence 8

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So Maddie wrote a proper sorry note, and it took her three goes: «I pulled your hair because I was embarrassed about my trousers.

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**Who acts:** Maddie, it, mum · **What happens:** write, take, pull, be · **To what, where:** proper sorry note, three goes, Maddie, hair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, it, mum), 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:8
# text = So Maddie wrote a proper sorry note, and it took her three goes: «I pulled your hair because I was embarrassed about my trousers.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	goes	go	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | past | Maddie | a proper sorry note |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | it | three goes | Maddie |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Theme go=Destination |
| 3 | **pull** *in a quote* | past | Chloe's mum *= mum* | your hair |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Chloe's mum *= mum* |  |  |  |  | about my trousers; embarrassed *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:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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