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title: Ellie borrows Maddie's spelling tricks «for luck» and wins the class… — The copier and the one who competes at everything · tree and pragmatics
description: Ellie borrows Maddie's spelling tricks «for luck» and wins the class round; Maddie says «well done» through her teeth, makes new tricks, keeps them to herself, and wins next term. Who acts: Ellie, Maddie. A sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» of the everyday co
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# The copier and the one who competes at everything, sentence 27

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Ellie borrows Maddie's spelling tricks «for luck» and wins the class round; Maddie says «well done» through her teeth, makes new tricks, keeps them to herself, and wins next term.

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**Who acts:** Ellie, Maddie · **What happens:** borrow, win, say, do, make, keep · **To what, where:** spelling tricks, class round, teeth, new tricks, tricks, Maddie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The copier and the one who competes at everything» 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 (Ellie, Maddie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.lesson:27
# text = Ellie borrows Maddie's spelling tricks «for luck» and wins the class round; Maddie says «well done» through her teeth, makes new tricks, keeps them to herself, and wins next term.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 469-the-copier-and-the-one-who-competes-at-everything.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	borrows	borrow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	spelling	spelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
19	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obl	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
38	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **borrow** | present | Ellie | Maddie's spelling tricks |  |  |  | for luck | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 2 | **win** | present | Ellie *not said here* | class round |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Maddie |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | Maddie *not said here* |  |  | Maddie's teeth |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | present | Maddie *not said here* | new tricks |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trick=Product |
| 6 | **keep** | present | Maddie *not said here* | tricks *= trick* | Maddie |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **win** | present | Ellie *not said here* | next term |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Eventuality |
| 8 | **trick** |  | Maddie |  |  |  |  | for luck | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/).

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