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title: Teachers and dinner staff are meant to apply school rules to everyon… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics
description: Teachers and dinner staff are meant to apply school rules to everyone in the same way; if you think a rule was applied unfairly, you can say so calmly later. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Girls who fight and double standards» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its depend
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# Girls who fight and double standards, sentence 24

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Teachers and dinner staff are meant to apply school rules to everyone in the same way; if you think a rule was applied unfairly, you can say so calmly later.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** mean, apply, think, say · **To what, where:** Teachers, school rules, same way, rule · **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 (you), 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:24
# text = Teachers and dinner staff are meant to apply school rules to everyone in the same way; if you think a rule was applied unfairly, you can say so calmly later.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	apply	apply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
25	unfairly	unfairly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **mean** | present · passive |  | Teachers and dinner staff |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **apply** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | school rules |  | the same way |  | to everyone | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rule=Theme in way=Destination |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **apply** | past · passive |  | a rule |  |  |  | unfairly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | you |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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