--- title: Kieran, meanwhile, wrote her a note and then lost his nerve and hid… — Boys who look at Maddie oddly · tree and pragmatics description: Kieran, meanwhile, wrote her a note and then lost his nerve and hid it. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Boys who look at Maddie oddly](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/) / 7 # Boys who look at Maddie oddly, sentence 7 Kieran, meanwhile, wrote her a note and then lost his nerve and hid it. **Who acts:** Kieran · **What happens:** write, lose, hide · **To what, where:** note, Maddie, nerve 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:7 # text = Kieran, meanwhile, wrote her a note and then lost his nerve and hid it. # 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 1 Kieran Kieran PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obj 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 11 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past | Kieran | a note | Maddie | | | meanwhile *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient note=Topic | | 2 | **lose** | past | Kieran *not said here* | Road's nerve | | | then | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nerve=Eventuality | | 3 | **hide** | past | Kieran *not said here* | nerve | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | 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. **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:7`. **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. **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/). - ← previous: [Boys who look at Maddie oddly, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/6/) - next →: [Boys who look at Maddie oddly, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/389-boys-who-look-at-maddie-oddly/)