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title: After Connor punched Maddie's nose, half the class said «Connor's a… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics
description: After Connor punched Maddie's nose, half the class said «Connor's a coward, he hit a girl» and the other half said «Maddie asked for it, she shoves boys all day». Who acts: Connor, class, other half, Maddie. A sentence of the lesson «Girls who fight and double standards» of the everyday course of Mo
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# Girls who fight and double standards, sentence 5

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After Connor punched Maddie's nose, half the class said «Connor's a coward, he hit a girl» and the other half said «Maddie asked for it, she shoves boys all day».

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**Who acts:** Connor, class, other half, Maddie · **What happens:** punch, say, be, hit, ask, shove · **To what, where:** nose, coward, girl, boys · **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 (Connor, class, other half, Maddie), 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:5
# text = After Connor punched Maddie's nose, half the class said «Connor's a coward, he hit a girl» and the other half said «Maddie asked for it, she shoves boys all day».
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	punched	punch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
13	Connor	Connor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	coward	coward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Maddie	Maddie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	shoves	shove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
36	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
39	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	35	obj	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	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 | **punch** | past | Connor | Maddie's nose |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | half class |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Connor | a coward |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hit** *in a quote* | past | Connor | a girl |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme girl=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the other half |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | Maddie |  |  |  |  | for half | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **shove** *in a quote* | present | class |  | boys |  | day |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Destination »=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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**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): R6-punct-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.

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