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title: Treating girls and boys differently like that is unfair, and many fa… — The favourite, the black sheep, covering for eac… · tree and pragmatics
description: Treating girls and boys differently like that is unfair, and many families are changing it, sometimes because a kid spoke up. Who acts: Treating, many families, kid. A sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» of the everyday course of Mova's 
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# The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs, sentence 11

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Treating girls and boys differently like that is unfair, and many families are changing it, sometimes because a kid spoke up.

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**Who acts:** Treating, many families, kid · **What happens:** treat, be, change, speak up · **To what, where:** girls, bike

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The favourite, the black sheep, covering for each other and hand-me-downs» 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 (Treating, many families, kid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:11
# text = Treating girls and boys differently like that is unfair, and many families are changing it, sometimes because a kid spoke up.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	csubj	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	differently	differently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	unfair	unfair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	changing	change	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
19	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: evaluate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=evaluate, polarity=neg

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **treat** | gerund |  |  | girls and boys |  |  | that *obl*; differently *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient |
| 2 | **is** | present | Treating |  |  |  |  | unfair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | present · progressive | many families | bike |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **speak up** *speech: other* | past | a kid |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: 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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**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:509-the-favourite-the-black-sheep-covering-and-hand-me-downs.lesson:11`.

**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, R8-pos-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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