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title: And when Kieran showed off doing wheelies in front of her and went f… — Boys who look at Maddie oddly · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Kieran showed off doing wheelies in front of her and went flying, Maddie laughed, but kindly, and helped him up. Who acts: Kieran, Maddie. 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 
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# Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 20

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And when Kieran showed off doing wheelies in front of her and went flying, Maddie laughed, but kindly, and helped him up.

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**Who acts:** Kieran, Maddie · **What happens:** show off, do, go, fly, laugh, help up · **To what, where:** wheelies, front, two

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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, Maddie), 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:20
# text = And when Kieran showed off doing wheelies in front of her and went flying, Maddie laughed, but kindly, and helped him up.
# 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:cc
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Kieran	Kieran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	wheelies	wheelie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	17	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:advcl
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 | **show off** | past | Kieran |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | Kieran *not said here* | wheelies |  | front of Maddie |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelie=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | past | Kieran *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | Kieran *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **laugh** | past | Maddie |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **help up** | past | Maddie *not said here* |  | two |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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:20`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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