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title: The most awkward moment was with Connor, the boy who once punched Ma… — Boys who look at Maddie oddly · tree and pragmatics
description: The most awkward moment was with Connor, the boy who once punched Maddie's nose because he was «all for equality». Who acts: awkward moment, boy, crush. 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 pragmatic
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# Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 10

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The most awkward moment was with Connor, the boy who once punched Maddie's nose because he was «all for equality».

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**Who acts:** awkward moment, boy, crush · **What happens:** be, punch · **To what, where:** nose

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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 (awkward moment, boy, crush), 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:10
# text = The most awkward moment was with Connor, the boy who once punched Maddie's nose because he was «all for equality».
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
13	punched	punch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
21	all	all	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	equality	equality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | past | the awkward moment |  |  |  |  | with Connor | tree rules |
| 2 | **punch** | past | the boy | Maddie's nose |  |  |  | once *property* | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | crush |  |  |  |  | for equality »; all *property* | tree rules |

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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:10`.

**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): 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/).

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