--- title: Girls who fight and double standards — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Girls who fight and double standards», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: At break Maddie and Jake both got into the same scuffle over the football. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/) [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/) / Girls who fight and double standards # Girls who fight and double standards Lesson 381 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/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/0/) — At break Maddie and Jake both got into the same scuffle over the football. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/1/) — The dinner lady told Jake off and kept him in, but to Maddie she only sighed: «I expected better from a girl.» Jake was furious — «same shove, why's she let off?» — and Maddie was cross too, because «better from a girl» made her feel like she wasn't a proper part of the game at all. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/2/) — Both of them were right that something was unfair. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/3/) — The street was just as muddled. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/4/) — When Maddie fought, kids said «Maddie's so cool»; when Jake did exactly the same, they said «that's horrible». - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/5/) — After Connor punched Maddie's nose, half the class said «Connor's a coward, he hit a girl» and the other half said «Maddie asked for it, she shoves boys all day». - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/6/) — Kieran told Maddie she couldn't come to a fight because she was a girl — and the very next day begged her to come because she was «the best fighter». - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/7/) — When Kerry punched a boy in the arm for teasing her, everyone said «good for her», though a boy doing the same would have been in trouble. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/8/) — And Jake's dad told him «never hit a girl» but «hit back if a boy hits you». - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/9/) — Sam got teased for not fighting, while Lily was praised for exactly the same thing. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/10/) — A teacher even told Lily to «act more like Maddie and stand up for herself», as if standing up meant using fists. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/12/) — All these rules have one thing in common: they judge the person, not the act. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/13/) — A fair rule is the same for everyone. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/14/) — Hurting someone is wrong whether a boy or a girl does it and whether a boy or a girl is hurt. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/15/) — Choosing not to fight is just as brave for Sam as it is for Lily, and standing up for yourself can mean saying no, walking off and telling an adult — for anyone. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/16/) — A double standard is when the same action is judged differently depending on who does it. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/17/) — Hitting someone is wrong whether the person who hits is a boy or a girl. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/18/) — A punch hurts just as much whoever throws it and whoever gets it. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/19/) — «They asked for it» never makes hitting someone right; annoying behaviour should be reported, not punished with fists. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/20/) — Choosing not to fight takes courage for boys as well as girls. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/22/) — Laughing at a fight because it is «a girl fight» treats real pain as a show. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/23/) — Adults sometimes say things that do not fit together; it is fine to ask them politely what they really mean. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/24/) — Teachers and dinner staff are meant to apply school rules to everyone in the same way; if you think a rule was applied unfairly, you can say so calmly later. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards/25/) — Being admired for fighting can trap a person into fighting again and again to keep the name. - ← previous: [Maddie and Chloe's plaits](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/380-maddie-and-chloes-plaits/) - next →: [Our street against theirs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/382-our-street-against-theirs/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)