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title: A double standard is when the same action is judged differently depe… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics
description: A double standard is when the same action is judged differently depending on who does it. 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 clause.
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# Girls who fight and double standards, sentence 16

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A double standard is when the same action is judged differently depending on who does it.

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**What happens:** be, judge, depend, do · **To what, where:** double standard, same action, action

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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: 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:16
# text = A double standard is when the same action is judged differently depending on who does it.
# 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	3	det	_	_
2	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	judged	judge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	depending	depend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **is a** | present |  | a double standard |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **judge** | present · passive |  | the same action |  |  |  | differently *property* | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
| 3 | **depend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | present |  | action |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:16`.

**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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