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title: Maddie sat on her doorstep holding a tissue to her mouth and thought… — Street gangs and loyalty · tree and pragmatics
description: Maddie sat on her doorstep holding a tissue to her mouth and thought: «Loyal to what, exactly?» Who acts: Maddie. A sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Street gangs and loyalty, sentence 11

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Maddie sat on her doorstep holding a tissue to her mouth and thought: «Loyal to what, exactly?»

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**Who acts:** Maddie · **What happens:** sit, hold, think · **To what, where:** doorstep, tissue

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Street gangs and loyalty» 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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:11
# text = Maddie sat on her doorstep holding a tissue to her mouth and thought: «Loyal to what, exactly?»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Loyal	loyal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=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 | **sit** | past | Maddie |  |  | Maddie's doorstep |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on doorstep=Location |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | Maddie *not said here* | a tissue |  |  |  | to Maddie's mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tissue=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Maddie *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:383-street-gangs-and-loyalty.lesson:11`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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