--- title: Kieran told Maddie she couldn't come to a fight because she was a gi… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics description: Kieran told Maddie she couldn't come to a fight because she was a girl — and the very next day begged her to come because she was «the best fighter». Who acts: Kieran, next day, girl. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kieran, next day, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.lesson:6 # text = Kieran told Maddie she couldn't come to a fight because she was a girl — and the very next day begged her to come because she was «the best fighter». # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.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 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 iobj _ _ 4 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 ccomp _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 advcl _ _ 16 — - PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 26 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 « « PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 fighter fighter NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 advcl _ _ 33 » » PUNCT '' _ 32 punct _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Kieran | | Maddie | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **come** | could | Kieran | | | a fight | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fight=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is a** | past | Kieran | a girl | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the next day | | girl | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **come** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the next day *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | girl | the best fighter | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. 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