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title: «They asked for it» never makes hitting someone right; annoying beha… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics
description: «They asked for it» never makes hitting someone right; annoying behaviour should be reported, not punished with fists. Who acts: hurts. 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
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# Girls who fight and double standards, sentence 19

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«They asked for it» never makes hitting someone right; annoying behaviour should be reported, not punished with fists.

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**Who acts:** hurts · **What happens:** ask, not make, not hit, report, not punish · **To what, where:** someone, annoying behaviour · **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 (hurts), 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:19
# text = «They asked for it» never makes hitting someone right; annoying behaviour should be reported, not punished with 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	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	_
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	csubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
9	hitting	hit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	annoying	annoying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | hurts *= hurt* |  |  |  |  | for punch | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **hit** | gerund |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme someone=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **report** | should · passive |  | annoying behaviour |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **punish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with fists | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent with fist=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:381-girls-who-fight-and-double-standards.lesson:19`.

**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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