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title: Josh in Bristol sneers «You kick like a girl» at Maya, and her next… — Girls' and boys' teams · tree and pragmatics
description: Josh in Bristol sneers «You kick like a girl» at Maya, and her next shot flies into the top corner; how hard you kick comes from technique and practice (plant foot, swing, contact with the laces), not from being a boy or a girl at this age. Who acts: Josh, You, next shot. A sentence of the lesson «G
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# Girls' and boys' teams, sentence 0

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Josh in Bristol sneers «You kick like a girl» at Maya, and her next shot flies into the top corner; how hard you kick comes from technique and practice (plant foot, swing, contact with the laces), not from being a boy or a girl at this age.

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**Who acts:** Josh, You, next shot · **What happens:** sneer, kick, fly, come, not be · **To what, where:** Maya, top corner, technique, boy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Girls' and boys' teams» of the medicine 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 (Josh, You, next shot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:069-girls-and-boys-teams.lesson:0
# text = Josh in Bristol sneers «You kick like a girl» at Maya, and her next shot flies into the top corner; how hard you kick comes from technique and practice (plant foot, swing, contact with the laces), not from being a boy or a girl at this age.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 069-girls-and-boys-teams.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	sneers	sneer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kick	kick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Maya	Maya	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shot	shot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	kick	kick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	csubj	_	_
29	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	technique	technique	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
35	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	swing	swing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	laces	lace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	36	punct	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
47	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=50:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
48	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	cop	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
51	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
54	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	det	_	_
56	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **sneer** | present | Josh in Bristol |  |  | Maya |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kick** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | like a girl | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fly** | present | Josh's next shot |  |  |  |  | into the top corner *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into corner=Result |
| 4 | **kick** | present | you |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | present |  |  |  | technique and practice and plant foot at this age and swing and contact with the laces and a boy or a girl |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from technique=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **not** **is a** | gerund |  | a boy or a girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:medicine:069-girls-and-boys-teams.lesson:0`.

**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): 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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