--- title: Then Sam asked Maddie the question nobody had asked: «Why do the str… — Our street against theirs · tree and pragmatics description: Then Sam asked Maddie the question nobody had asked: «Why do the streets even fight?» Maddie opened her mouth and shut it again. Who acts: Sam, nobody, streets, Maddie. 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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 (Sam, nobody, streets, Maddie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:9 # text = Then Sam asked Maddie the question nobody had asked: «Why do the streets even fight?» Maddie opened her mouth and shut it again. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 382-our-street-against-theirs.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 ×1 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 Sam Sam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:det 6 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 9 nsubj _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 asked ask VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 11 « « PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 12 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 13 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 streets street NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 16 even even ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ 19 » » PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 20 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 shut shut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 again again ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Sam | the question | Maddie | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · perfect | nobody | the question *not said here* | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 3 | **fight** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the streets | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **open** | past | Maddie | Maddie's mouth | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 5 | **shut** | past | Maddie *not said here* | mouth | | | again | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:382-our-street-against-theirs.lesson:9`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Our street against theirs, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/8/) - next →: [Our street against theirs, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/)