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title: And Jake's dad told him «never hit a girl» but «hit back if a boy hi… — Girls who fight and double standards · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jake's dad told him «never hit a girl» but «hit back if a boy hits you». Who acts: dad, boy. 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 8

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And Jake's dad told him «never hit a girl» but «hit back if a boy hits you».

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**Who acts:** dad, boy · **What happens:** tell, not hit, hit back, hit · **To what, where:** Jake, girl · **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 (dad, boy), 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:8
# text = And Jake's dad told him «never hit a girl» but «hit back if a boy hits you».
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	Jake	Jake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:xcomp
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hit	hit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hits	hit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Jake's dad |  | Jake |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **hit** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a girl |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme girl=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **hit back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hit** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | a boy | Jake |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-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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**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:8`.

**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): 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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