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title: «boys shouldn't hit girls, but girls can hit boys». Is that fair? — Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» · tree and pragmatics
description: «boys shouldn't hit girls, but girls can hit boys». Is that fair? Test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 379 «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 9 · ★★★ · Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»

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«boys shouldn't hit girls, but girls can hit boys». Is that fair?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** boys, girls, that · **What happens:** not hit, hit, be · **To what, where:** girls, boys

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This is test 9 · ★★★ of lesson 379 «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* «boys shouldn't hit girls, but girls can hit boys».

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality:t9:1
# text = «boys shouldn't hit girls, but girls can hit boys».
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hit** *in a quote* | should | boys | girls |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme girl=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **hit** *in a quote* | can | girls | boys |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme boy=Co-Theme |

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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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*Sentence 2:* Is that fair?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality:t9:2
# text = Is that fair?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, boys are tougher

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality:t9:o1:1
# text = Yes, boys are tougher
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	tougher	tough	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | boys |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, that's what equality means

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality:t9:o2:1
# text = Yes, that's what equality means
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
6	equality	equality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | equality |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, nobody should hit anybody

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality:t9:o3:1
# text = No, nobody should hit anybody
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | should | nobody | anybody |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anybody=Co-Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Only on Fridays

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality:t9:o4:1
# text = Only on Fridays
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Fridays	Friday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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