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title: A compliment with «for a girl» or «for a boy» attached is only half… — Boys who look at Maddie oddly · tree and pragmatics
description: A compliment with «for a girl» or «for a boy» attached is only half a compliment. Who acts: compliment. 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 27

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A compliment with «for a girl» or «for a boy» attached is only half a compliment.

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**Who acts:** compliment · **What happens:** attach, be · **To what, where:** boy », compliment

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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 (compliment), 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:27
# text = A compliment with «for a girl» or «for a boy» attached is only half a compliment.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	«	«	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	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 | **attach** | participle |  | boy » *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a compliment with girl » or boy » | half compliment |  |  |  |  | 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:27`.

**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. **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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