--- title: Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Maddie had shoved Connor in the line, and Connor punched her in the face. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» # Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» Lesson 379 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 24 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/0/) — Maddie had shoved Connor in the line, and Connor punched her in the face. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/1/) — The next morning she looked in the bathroom mirror at a nose that was swollen, purple and twice its size. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/2/) — «I look like a plum,» she said, and then she cried, which she hadn't done in front of anyone the day before. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/3/) — At school Connor told his friends, «I hit her because equality. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/4/) — She wants to fight like a boy, so she gets hit like a boy.» Some of the class agreed: «Maddie deserved it, she's always shoving.» When the school called Connor's dad in, he said, «Well, she was asking for it.» That evening Maddie's big brother Ryan wanted to «sort Connor out» after school. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/6/) — Mum sat on the end of Maddie's bed and asked a hard question: «Do you want to fight like the boys, or do you want to be treated fairly?» Maddie thought for a long time. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/7/) — Equality, Mum said, means everyone gets the same respect and the same rules — and the rule is that nobody hits anybody. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/8/) — It doesn't mean «now I'm allowed to punch you». - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/9/) — A punch to the face is wrong whoever throws it and whoever gets it. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/10/) — That night Maddie wrote in her diary: «Connor was wrong to hit me. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/11/) — I was wrong to shove him. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/12/) — I'm still angry.» All three sentences were true at once. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/13/) — A week later Mrs Okafor put them in the same group for science. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/15/) — Sam was the only one who had thought to ask her whether it hurt. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/16/) — Equality means everyone gets the same respect and the same rules, not that anyone may hit anyone. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/17/) — Hitting someone in the face is wrong whether the person is a boy or a girl. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/18/) — Being shoved is wrong too, but a punch to the face is a much bigger harm than a shove. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/19/) — «She was asking for it» is an excuse; nobody deserves to be hurt. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/20/) — Two people can both be in the wrong, and one can still be more in the wrong. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/21/) — A big brother «sorting someone out» is revenge and usually makes things worse for everyone. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/22/) — A hit to the nose can cause swelling and bruising that lasts a week or more, and sometimes a broken nose. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/23/) — You can admit your own part in a fight and still be angry about what was done to you. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/24/) — Working together on something new, like a science task, often helps two people who fell out. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality/25/) — Asking «does it hurt?» is a small kindness that people remember for a long time. - ← previous: [Maddie the tomboy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/378-maddie-the-tomboy/) - next →: [Maddie and Chloe's plaits](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)