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title: Choosing not to fight takes courage for boys as well as girls. — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics
description: Choosing not to fight takes courage for boys as well as girls. Who acts: Choosing. 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 20

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Choosing not to fight takes courage for boys as well as girls.

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**Who acts:** Choosing · **What happens:** choose, not fight, take · **To what, where:** courage

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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 (Choosing), 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:20
# text = Choosing not to fight takes courage for boys as well as girls.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Choosing	choose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
5	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	5	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, indirect=0

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **fight** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | present | Choosing | courage |  |  |  | for boys and girls | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent courage=Theme for boy=Beneficiary |

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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:20`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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