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title: At a sleepover Ellie reads out Maddie's diary, where Maddie had call… — The secret that got told · tree and pragmatics
description: At a sleepover Ellie reads out Maddie's diary, where Maddie had called her «a goose»; in the end both girls say sorry — Ellie for reading it, Maddie for the mean words. Who acts: Ellie, Maddie, girls. A sentence of the lesson «The secret that got told» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# The secret that got told, sentence 12

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At a sleepover Ellie reads out Maddie's diary, where Maddie had called her «a goose»; in the end both girls say sorry — Ellie for reading it, Maddie for the mean words.

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**Who acts:** Ellie, Maddie, girls · **What happens:** read out, call, say, read · **To what, where:** diary, sleepover, Ellie, end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The secret that got told» 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, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:12
# text = At a sleepover Ellie reads out Maddie's diary, where Maddie had called her «a goose»; in the end both girls say sorry — Ellie for reading it, Maddie for the mean words.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 476-the-secret-that-got-told.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 ×5
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sleepover	sleepover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	diary	diary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obj
19	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:cc:preconj|HaikuPos=CCONJ:CC:_
25	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
27	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj
28	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Ellie	Ellie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	reading	read	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
38	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **read out** | present | Ellie | Maddie's diary |  | a sleepover |  | for the mean words; Maddie *obl* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent diary=Theme at sleepover=Value |
| 2 | **call** | past · perfect | Maddie |  | Ellie |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | both girls |  |  |  | in the end |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in end=Manner |
| 4 | **read** | gerund | both girls *not said here* | diary |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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:476-the-secret-that-got-told.lesson:12`.

**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 ×5. **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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