--- title: Adults sometimes say things that do not fit together; it is fine to… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics description: Adults sometimes say things that do not fit together; it is fine to ask them politely what they really mean. Who acts: Adults, things, boys. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Adults, things, boys), 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:23 # text = Adults sometimes say things that do not fit together; it is fine to ask them politely what they really mean. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 sometimes sometimes ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 6 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 8 advmod _ _ 8 fit fit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nsubj 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 iobj _ _ 17 politely politely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 obj _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 really really ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 mean mean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Adults | things | | | | sometimes *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | | 2 | **not** **fit together** | present · do-support | things | | | | | together *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | fine *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | | | boys *= boy* | | | politely *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **mean** | present | boys *= boy* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | 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. **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:23`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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. 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