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title: Kieran from her own street stared at her in class and went red as a… — Boys who look at Maddie oddly · tree and pragmatics
description: Kieran from her own street stared at her in class and went red as a postbox whenever she looked back. Who acts: Kieran. A sentence of the lesson «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 1

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Kieran from her own street stared at her in class and went red as a postbox whenever she looked back.

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**Who acts:** Kieran · **What happens:** stare, go, look back · **To what, where:** Maddie

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Boys who look at Maddie oddly» 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 (Kieran), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly.lesson:1
# text = Kieran from her own street stared at her in class and went red as a postbox whenever she looked back.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly.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
1	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
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	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod:poss|HaikuPos=PRON:PRP$:Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	postbox	postbox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:WRB:_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | past | Kieran from Kieran's own street | Maddie |  |  |  | at class | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at class=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Kieran from Kieran's own street *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a postbox; red *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look back** | past | Kieran |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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