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title: A teacher even told Lily to «act more like Maddie and stand up for h… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics
description: A teacher even told Lily to «act more like Maddie and stand up for herself», as if standing up meant using fists. Who acts: teacher. A sentence of the lesson «Girls who fight and double standards» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Girls who fight and double standards, sentence 10

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A teacher even told Lily to «act more like Maddie and stand up for herself», as if standing up meant using fists.

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**Who acts:** teacher · **What happens:** tell, act, stand up, mean, use · **To what, where:** Lily, fists · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Girls who fight and double standards» 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 (teacher), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.lesson:10
# text = A teacher even told Lily to «act more like Maddie and stand up for herself», as if standing up meant using fists.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Lily	Lily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	iobj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
21	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	nsubj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	meant	mean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
24	using	use	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	xcomp	_	_
25	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a teacher |  | Lily |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent lily=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **act** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | a teacher *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like Maddie | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like maddie=Attribute |
| 3 | **stand up** *in a quote* | infinitive | a teacher *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Lily | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **mean** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **use** *not said to happen* | gerund |  | fists |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fist=Patient |

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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:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.lesson:10`.

**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): no change. **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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