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description: Maddie had her own version: two boys from different streets kept throwing her hat into a tree, until she told them, «If you like me, just say so.» Who acts: Maddie, two boys, tricks. A sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school w
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# Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily, sentence 15

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Maddie had her own version: two boys from different streets kept throwing her hat into a tree, until she told them, «If you like me, just say so.»

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**Who acts:** Maddie, two boys, tricks · **What happens:** have, keep, throw, tell, like, say · **To what, where:** own version, hat, tree, tricks, Maddie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ponytail tugging: crushes shown clumsily» 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, two boys, tricks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:15
# text = Maddie had her own version: two boys from different streets kept throwing her hat into a tree, until she told them, «If you like me, just say so.»
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.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): no change
1	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
26	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
35	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Maddie | Maddie's own version |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | past | two boys from different streets *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | gerund | two boys from different streets *not said here* | Maddie's hat |  |  |  | into a tree *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer hat=Theme into tree=Result |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Maddie |  | tricks *= trick* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | tricks *= trick* | Maddie |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:387-ponytail-tugging-crushes-shown-clumsily.lesson:15`.

**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): no change. **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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