--- title: Gran: «Nice girls don't fight, nice boys hit back.» What's a fairer… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics description: Gran: «Nice girls don't fight, nice boys hit back.» What's a fairer saying? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 381 «Girls who fight and double standards» 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 wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Girls who fight and double standards](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · Girls who fight and double standards Gran: «Nice girls don't fight, nice boys hit back.» What's a fairer saying? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Nice girls, nice boys · **What happens:** not fight, hit back, be · **To what, where:** fairer saying This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 381 «Girls who fight and double standards» 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/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/#t9). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Gran: «Nice girls don't fight, nice boys hit back.» ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards:t9:1 # text = Gran: «Nice girls don't fight, nice boys hit back.» 1 Gran gran NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 Nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 6 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 7 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 13 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **fight** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Nice girls | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hit back** *in a quote* | past | nice boys | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* What's a fairer saying? ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards:t9:2 # text = What's a fairer saying? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 fairer fair ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 amod _ _ 5 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | a fairer saying | | | | | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Nobody should ever stand up for themselves ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards:t9:o1:1 # text = Nobody should ever stand up for themselves 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 4 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 advmod _ _ 4 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand up** | should | Nobody | | | | ever | for themselves *= they* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} Only nice boys fight ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards:t9:o2:1 # text = Only nice boys fight 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 boys boy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 fight fight VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight** | present | nice boys | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Girls must always hit back too ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards:t9:o3:1 # text = Girls must always hit back too 1 Girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 hit hit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hit back** | must | Girls | | | | | always *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Nice people don't hurt anyone ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards:t9:o4:1 # text = Nice people don't hurt anyone 1 Nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 5 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hurt** | present · do-support | Nice people | anyone | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient | **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. 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