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title: Equality, Mum said, means everyone gets the same respect and the sam… — Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality» · tree and pragmatics
description: Equality, Mum said, means everyone gets the same respect and the same rules — and the rule is that nobody hits anybody. Who acts: Mum, Equality, everyone, nobody. A sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality», sentence 7

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Equality, Mum said, means everyone gets the same respect and the same rules — and the rule is that nobody hits anybody.

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**Who acts:** Mum, Equality, everyone, nobody · **What happens:** say, mean, get, be, hit · **To what, where:** same respect, rule, anybody · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Maddie's nose and Connor's «equality»» 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 (Mum, Equality, everyone, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:7
# text = Equality, Mum said, means everyone gets the same respect and the same rules — and the rule is that nobody hits anybody.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Equality	equality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
24	anybody	anybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mean** | present | Equality |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **get** | present | everyone | the same respect and the same rules |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer respect=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | present | everyone *not said here* | the rule |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hit** | present | nobody | anybody |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anybody=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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**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:379-maddies-nose-and-connors-equality.lesson:7`.

**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, R8-pos-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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