--- title: One teacher told Maddie she «can't help it, she's a tomboy», as if l… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics description: One teacher told Maddie she «can't help it, she's a tomboy», as if liking football meant she was bound to fight. Who acts: One teacher, teacher. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One teacher, teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:6 # text = One teacher told Maddie she «can't help it, she's a tomboy», as if liking football meant she was bound to fight. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.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 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 Maddie Maddie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 6 « « PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 7 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 tomboy tomboy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 liking like VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 21 football football NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 bound bound ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | One teacher | | Maddie | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent maddie=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **help** *in a quote* | can | teacher | gran | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | teacher | a tomboy | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | gerund | | football | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot football=Theme | | 5 | **mean** | past | One teacher *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | teacher | | | | | bound *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **fight** | to-infinitive | teacher *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:6`. **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: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/5/) - next →: [Adults who help and adults who don't, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont/)