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title: Laughing at a fight because it is «a girl fight» treats real pain as… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics
description: Laughing at a fight because it is «a girl fight» treats real pain as a show. Who acts: fight, Laughing. 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 22

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Laughing at a fight because it is «a girl fight» treats real pain as a show.

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**Who acts:** fight, Laughing · **What happens:** laugh, be, treat · **To what, where:** fight, girl fight, real pain

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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 (fight, Laughing), 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:22
# text = Laughing at a fight because it is «a girl fight» treats real pain as a show.
# 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	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	treats	treat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  | a fight |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | fight | a girl fight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **treat** | present | Laughing | real pain |  |  |  | as a show | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent pain=Theme as show=Attribute |

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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:22`.

**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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