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title: Then a boy from Station Road, the street that was supposed to be «at… — Boys who look at Maddie oddly · tree and pragmatics
description: Then a boy from Station Road, the street that was supposed to be «at war» with hers, asked Maddie to the cinema. Who acts: boy. 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 5

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Then a boy from Station Road, the street that was supposed to be «at war» with hers, asked Maddie to the cinema.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** suppose, be, ask · **To what, where:** street, war, Maddie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy), 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:5
# text = Then a boy from Station Road, the street that was supposed to be «at war» with hers, asked Maddie to the cinema.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Station	Station	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:aux:pass
15	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	_
18	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
22	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	iobj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cinema	cinema	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	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 | **suppose** | past · passive |  | the street |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | war |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a boy from Station Road |  | Maddie |  | then | to the cinema | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient |

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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:5`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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