--- title: Lily also asked Maddie to teach her to climb trees: she got stuck on… — Lily, the calm «princess» · tree and pragmatics description: Lily also asked Maddie to teach her to climb trees: she got stuck on the first branch, laughed at herself, and Maddie's mum helped her down. Who acts: Lily, mum. 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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 (Lily, mum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:12 # text = Lily also asked Maddie to teach her to climb trees: she got stuck on the first branch, laughed at herself, and Maddie's mum helped her down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 386-lily-the-calm-princess.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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Lily Lily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 also also ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 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 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 teach teach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 got get AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 amod _ _ 18 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 29 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 down down ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 31 . . 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 | Lily | | Maddie | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **teach** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* | | Lily | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **climb** | to-infinitive | Lily *not said here* | trees | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 4 | **laugh** | past | Lily *not said here* | | | | | at Lily | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **help down** | past | Maddie's mum | | Lily | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | 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:386-lily-the-calm-princess.lesson:12`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×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/). - ← previous: [Lily, the calm «princess», 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/11/) - next →: [Lily, the calm «princess», 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/386-lily-the-calm-princess/)